This snapshot investigates the career guidance and support available for 15-year-old students in their schools as research suggests that school-based career guidance is important for promoting further post-school study. It finds there were smaller percentages of students from disadvantaged backgrounds and in remote schools who had access to career counsellors.

To improve pathways and outcomes for disadvantaged students in the future, this report finds that demonstrating to young people the value and applicability of mathematics in early adolescence was a key determinant of students’ future persistence in STEM.

This report presents the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 assessment for Australia. Executive summary PISA seeks to measure how well young adults at age 15 (and, therefore, near the end of compulsory schooling in most participating education systems) are prepared to use their knowledge and skills in particular areas to...

This report presents the results of two projects examining Indigenous Children's language development. Abstract This report presents the results of administration of the Who Am I? and the Renfrew Word Finding Vocabulary Test for the LSIC Wave 2 data collection in 2009. Who am I? is a developmental assessment that requires the child to write...

Primary Industry plays a vital role in Australian’s economy and society, but the gap between rural and urban communities is growing, contributing to a lack of understanding of where food and other basic necessities of life come from. The recent television advertisement in which the grandfather shows a row of plants to his granddaughter and...