May 7, 1999

Aborigine Enrollment Increases in Australia

By GEOFFREY MASLEN

The number of aborigines enrolled at Australian universities rose 60 per cent over the past five years, to almost 8,000. However, the persistence and graduation rates of such students remained low, according to a study by the federal Education Department

The study, on disadvantaged groups' access to higher education, found that indigenous people enrolling at Australian universities for the first time account for 1.5 per cent of all

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