In May 2006 the Australian Government commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to analyse and report on the content, curriculum and standards in Year 12 English (including Literature), Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry and Australian History.

This study undertaken for The Smith Family by the Australian Council for Educational Research is the fifth in a series of reports on the challenges faced by Learning for Life students in making successful post-school transitions. ‘Australian Young People: their stories, their families and post-school plans’ was undertaken by Australian Council for Educational Research for...

An analysis of the characteristics of students who fail to complete university courses has found that whether a student attended a government or independent school and their socioeconomic background made little difference to the odds of completing their course. The study, released today, investigated attrition rates from university courses, background factors that may influence attrition...

More than one third of young Australians from non-metropolitan areas relocate to a major city in the years immediately after leaving school and, although some return, non-metropolitan areas experience a net loss of a quarter of their young people. This report is the first Australian national longitudinal study of young people’s geographic mobility.

This report provides an overview of current pay arrangements and collective enterprise bargaining agreements for teachers in Australian schools. Gives an overview of recent Australian and international research on the attitudes of stakeholders to performance-based pay schemes for teachers, and thirdly looks at the gaps in the Australian and international evidence base on performance pay...