Kate Barnett and Robin Ryan provide a stocktake of issues and activities in vocational education and training in schools through the perspectives of the published literature and policy documentation between 1997 and 2003. They identify progress made and conclude that vocational programs in schools are meeting expectations and have achieved a legitimate place in the...

Using data from the 2003 wave of the British Household Panel Survey Alison Booth and Hiau Joo Kee test if siblings are assigned equal shares in the family’s educational resources. They find that they are not, and that the shares decrease with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at birth and family level...

The ACT Government is committed to developing quality care and protection services for vulnerable children, young people and their families in the ACT that are culturally appropriate, child and young people centred and developed in partnership across the care and protection sector. The principles which underpin the framework are: Promote the care, protection and well-being...

This report is based on the 2004 DEST project, High Demand Government Schools, which was prompted by the Department's priority policy interest in quality schooling and 'choices in schooling'. Twenty government schools for which there was high demand for enrolments were selected from across Australia, using the local knowledge of State Education Departments and the...

Sue Thomson shows that subject choice has a major influence on the educational and career options open to Year 12 students after finishing school. Although most students make a successful transition to tertiary study or work, some parts of the Year 12 curriculum act as better pathways to post secondary education and training than others...