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Changing Practices To Better Support First-Year Health Science Students, G Hoyne, K Mcnaught
Changing Practices To Better Support First-Year Health Science Students, G Hoyne, K Mcnaught
Health Sciences Conference Papers
Entrance to university in Australia, in a post-Bradley era, is diversified and massified, with targets and programs to increase the participation of equity groups that were previously not represented. The changed cohorts have major implications for universities, in meeting the students’ needs, and as a moral and ethical response to enrolment. At the University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA) Fremantle campus, the 2011 cohort entering Health Sciences, experienced a high rate of failure and withdrawal from university. They entered university at a time when UNDA had begun to implement first year experience (FYE) pedagogical approaches but these had not been …