The study of more than 1300 disadvantaged Year 11 and 12 students who are receiving support from The Smith Family’s Learning for Life program found that anticipated income does not factor in their plans to attend university. Rather, the type of role and how closely it aligns with their interests and abilities has emerged as...

Crisis accounts of the youth labour market are not supported by the findings outlined in this report. Gary N. Marks also disputes claims that young people who are not fully engaged in full-time work or study are at risk of an unsuccessful school-to-work transition.

This report sets out a proposal for an Australian Certificate of Education that would be available to all senior secondary school students, regardless of where they live in Australia.

The quality of Year 8 science teaching in Australia is strongly endorsed by the findings of this study by Jan Lokan, Hilary Hollingsworth and Mark Hackling. The Third International Mathematics and Science Study 1999 Video Study (TIMSS) investigated and described Year 8 Science teaching in Australia, Japan, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands, all of...

This analysis of 2003 results in the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment finds that Australian students are among the world’s leading users of computers in education both at school and in the home. ACER led the international consortium that conducted the PISA 2003 assessments and collected the data used in this new analysis.