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The Ceiling That Also Rose

Redefining Enrolment Headroom Under a Simultaneous Cap-and-Growth Mandate

A six-term comparison of reported enrolment headroom against actual enrolment and offer rates across a change to how headroom is calculated finds reported headroom rising sharply while enrolment and offer rates hold near constant, consistent with a definitional rather than operational shift.

AuthorsVerity Marris, Casimir Beng, Petra Umbile
SchoolSchool of Emergent Priorities
Output typeResearch poster
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.b1vj6u
Pages1
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

Cite as

@misc{slop_b1vj6u,
  author       = {Verity Marris and Casimir Beng and Petra Umbile},
  title        = {The Ceiling That Also Rose: Redefining Enrolment Headroom Under a Simultaneous Cap-and-Growth Mandate},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.b1vj6u},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-recalibrating-enrolment-b1vj6u/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}