This report presents the initial findings from an ARC Linkage Grant, titled ‘Punish them or engage them? Identifying and addressing productive and unproductive student behaviours in South Australian schools’ (LP110100317), more commonly referred to as the Behaviour at School Study (BaSS). This phase of the study was conducted in 2011. We used the Behaviour at...

This report presents the results of the PISA digital reading literacy assessment for Australia in 2009.

The Enrolment, attendance and particpation policy should be read in conjunction with School enrolment procedures, School attendance procedures, Tasmanian academy procedure for student enrolments and Tasmanian polytechnic procedure for student enrolments policies. This policy pertains to the implementation of legislation relating to enrolment and attendance in the Tasmanian state government education sector. Relevant legislation consists...

Since 2005 the number of students from the Gulf States, specifically from Saudi Arabia, studying in Australia has increased significantly. Saudi academic sojourners have their own adjustment challenges, and the professionals who interact with them also have to adapt to a group of learners made up of diverse individuals. There is a degree of negative...

Based on a nationally representative sample of 25,950 Australian students, this paper investigates participation in off-campus paid work.