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Statistics reveal that while the number of Indigenous students enrolled in higher education has more than doubled from 1988 to 1993, most of the increases have occurred in education and the arts with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students being underrepresented in health (DEETYA as cited in Bin-Sallik, et al.,1994). Further, DEETYA statistics show that Indigenous students enrolled in health courses are less likely to complete their courses within a given time frame than non-Indigenous students. Much of the research already conducted into the issues of access, progression and retention of Indigenous students in higher education has been quantitative research aimed at establishing baseline data and statistics. There is a real need to get behind the statistics and explore the unanswered questions about the factors that influence progression and retention of Indigenous higher education students. The research described in this paper is a qualitative study undertaken at Yooroang Garang : School of Indigenous Health Studies. The project aims to investigate the factors which influence the participation, progression and retention of Indigenous students in full time health professional courses at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney. The initial questions for inquiry are 1) what are the factors related to the students themselves which influence their progression and retention? 2) what are the factors related to the teaching and learning experience which influence student progression and retention? and 3) what are the characteristics of an effective model of support for Indigenous students?
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