Contents

02 From the President

Feature

03 Funding completion rates spells danger
Marcia Devlin on institutional support for students from low SES backgrounds

Community

05 Who’s who in HERDSA
06 Around the branches
07 Fellows column
08 HERDSA NZ column
09 Ako Aotearoa column
09 HERDSA-TERNZ award winner
10 Recognising outstanding service
11 STEM column

Perspectives

12 Meanderings
Robert Cannon meanders through procrastination, acronyms and student evaluation of teaching
14 Open educational resources revisited
Roger Atkinson contemplates the changing world of open resources
16 From the HERD editorial desk
Craig Whitsed and Wendy Green
16 Essential reading
17 Postcard from Vietnam
Owen Hicks reflects on volunteering in a provincial Chinese university

Reviews
19 Sarah O’Shea First-in-family learners in higher education

Showcase

20 Using the Research Skill Development Framework
John Willison on the use of the RSF at the University of the South Pacific
21 Using structured storytelling for evaluation
Lynne Hunt offers the second of three articles on the uses of structured storytelling