Uncapping uni places for Indigenous students is a step in the right direction, but we must do much more

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news: 4 news outlets
blogs: 1 blog
twitter: 34 X users

facebook: 1 Facebook page
reddit: 2 Redditors

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Title	Uncapping uni places for Indigenous students is a step in the right direction, but we must do much more
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.5pqqqpkrv
Authors	Shay, Marnee, Fredericks, Bronwyn, Raciti, Maria
Abstract	Universities Australia is calling on the federal government to uncap university places for all Indigenous students, regardless of where they live.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	16	47%
Iceland	1	3%
Curaçao	1	3%
Canada	1	3%
Unknown	15	44%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	24	71%
Scientists	7	21%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	2	6%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	1	3%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 59. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 March 2024.

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#872,874

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#98,638

of 202,550 outputs

Altmetric has tracked 32,429,378 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.

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