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The submission reframes the Accord’s vision around enabling equity, including closing school-based education gaps that drive literacy and numeracy disadvantages in the Northern Territory. 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Our success is pivotal to delivering for Northern Australia’s security and future prosperity, especially for the Northern Territory (NT) and its people. CDU serves a highly dispersed population comprising 32 per cent First Nations people.  \nVision  \nThe Panel’s vision has the potential to establish a shared aspiration for Australia’s tertiary education system. The vision should also include that students entering tertiary education have access to excellent school-based education, which is fundamental, but only receives a cursory mention in the Report. In short, the most important lever to support students at university from equity cohorts is addressing the education gap (of essential knowledge and capabilities) that exists first in schooling. CDU addressed this is our first submission (p10) because it is a persistent concern in the NT where school students have on average the lowest levels of literacy and numeracy in the nation. Disadvantage is compounded by remoteness and experienced by First Nations students especially.  \nEntrenched barriers to educational success will remain until long-term school reform can be realised. Lifting school achievement would improve the prospects of tertiary success for all students, especially those from equity cohorts.  \nThe vision already acknowledges higher education’s role as being, ‘vital to the nation’s social fabric, particularly in the regions’. CDU argues this should include a stronger guarantee of access to ‘most-local’ institutions for regional and remote students. The incorporation of this within the vision may take the form of the Regional Universities’ Network concept of a ‘Universal Higher Education Access Commitment’.  \nFirst Nations  \nCDU strongly agrees with putting First Nations at the heart of higher education as one of the possible ‘system shifts’(p20); better recognising and incorporating First Nations knowledges in research (p94); and the idea of a First Nations Higher Education Council to collaborate at a sector-level on excellence (p112) . CDU made a number of recommendations for how outcomes for First Nations students could be improved (see especially p10-13 of CDU’s first submission) and these remain our priority.  \nThe importance of driving better education and training outcomes in the NT, especially remote NT cannot be understated and deliver long-term dividends. CDU has seen this first-hand, for example, through the impact of graduating just one First Nations school teacher in a community. The tertiary system must recognise the knowledge and skills of First Nations peoples, as this has great potential to innovate tertiary courses across the country. Significantly, it will shape and nurture institutions as more welcoming and culturally safe for First Nations peoples, and allow institutions like CDU to make a significant contribution to meeting workforce needs. When the unemployment disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples are closed, it allows for a range of other benefits to be realised including in health and social outcomes.  \n1 Submission can be access at: [https://www.cdu.edu.au/g","cbCaivlyA5ndg7VZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivlyA5ndg7VZ","pdf",705286,"English","# Vision\n## Equity and school-based education gap\n## Regional universities and access commitment\n# First Nations\n## Recommendations for improving outcomes\n# Addressing flaws of the universities funding model\n## Strengths of place-based regional universities\n## Funding models and national grant request","[{\"question\":\"What are the three big ideas CDU presents in its Accord submission?\",\"answer\":\"The submission focuses on: engaging genuinely with First Nations knowledges, addressing funding flaws in the universities model while recognising CDU’s contribution to the NT, and seeking a ‘one tertiary’ system.\"},{\"question\":\"How does CDU connect equity at university to earlier schooling?\",\"answer\":\"CDU argues that the most important lever for equity cohorts is addressing the education gap that begins in schooling, particularly in the Northern Territory where literacy and numeracy levels are lowest.\"},{\"question\":\"What funding changes does CDU propose regarding the universities model?\",\"answer\":\"CDU calls for a new National Grant that properly recognises its contribution to the NT, arguing that current activity-based or one-size funding does not account for the challenges of operating in regional and remote Australia.\"}]","Charles Darwin University’s April 2023 Submission to the Australian Universities Accord Interim Report - Interim Report Submission | PDF"]