This report gives an overview of the progress of the initiatives over the first eight months of the Building the Education Revolution National Coordinator's Implementation Report, February-September 2009.

How does place-making - broadly defined as the practice of fostering community in place - occur when the majority of people in that 'community' are transnational rather than local in their orientation, and temporary rather than permanent in their settlement? This report looks at the experience of students at RMIT and the University of Melbourne...

A third of Australian and New Zealand tertiary students seriously consider leaving their institutions before graduation, according to this study of student engagement. A representative sample of more than 25,000 students from 29 Australian and New Zealand universities participated in the latest cycle of the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE), conducted in 2008 –...

This publication presents information about the outcomes for students who completed their vocational education and training during 2007. Information about the level and type of training students undertake, further study patterns and reasons for not continuing with the training (where applicable) is also collected.

This paper argues that there is more to a successful start to school than the characteristics of an individual child.