墨尔本代写assignment:社会公平与全球化的高等教育

墨尔本代写assignment:社会公平与全球化的高等教育

In the year of 2007, James wrote an essay called ‘Social Equity in a mass, globalized higher education environment: the unresolved issue of widening access to university’ and its main purpose is to evaluate the social equity of higher education in Australia especially focused on people from low social-economic status backgrounds in rural and metropolitan areas and Indigenous people. As to the structure of the essay, it mainly separates into 5 parts. The first part is about the concept of equity and its importance in higher education. The second part is brief introduction to the international patterns of participation in higher education. The following part is to analyze the social equity issue in Australia in a quite detailed and comparative way. In the next part, the author takes the University of Melbourne as an example to show these challenges of the excellence-equity social contract. The fifth part is the main part of this essay and the author dispels six myths that surround equity of access of higher education in Australia. These six myths include expanding participation will improve equity, free or low cost higher education will improve equity, improving equity involves the removal of barriers to access, the onus is with universities to resolve equity problems, widening participation will lower standards or lower retention and completion rates, and students can be selected for higher education on academic merit. On the basis of part five, the author recommends to take bold stepson so as to provide a series of ideas on the conditions for advancing equity of higher education in Australian. These steps are separated into seven aspects and the author explains their rationality respectively and in a detailed way. At the same time, the author holds such an idea that Australia should develop a new concept of equity among international students because more and more students in Australian universities are from foreign countries. 

In a summary, the author thinks that it is quite necessary for Australia to re-invigorate its equity discourse so as to forming a new national scoping study on equity of access especially the nation should focuses on these people with low social-economic status background and rural areas together with local people. At the same time, the author holds quite strong belief that Australia will be able to recover its reputation in higher education all over the world after going through a few troubles.