Hi ALCAM,

Those statistics on Indigenous higher education participation are raw figures, derived from Indigenous students' self-reporting at universities. If anything, they may be an under-estimate of the real figures, since many Indigenous students don't tick the box.

But the bald figures do conceal, unless you look carefully, the facts that males are only half as likely to be participating, that some universities are doing a superb job and others a lousy job, and that the course selection is skewed away from STEP courses.

Joe