Almost three-quarters of new jobs in Canada will require a postsecondary education credential. While enrolments   at Ontario’s colleges and universities are at record levels, certain socio-economic groups are under-represented in the postsecondary system – among them low-income, Aboriginal, first-generation (where neither parent has attended a postsecondary institution) and persons with disabilities.

 HEQCO research is particularly focused on

• whether students from these under-represented groups access and complete higher education in appropriate numbers and, if not,
• what strategies will increase their participation and maximize the probability that they will graduate.