This audit reviewed the effectiveness of learning technologies in government schools. In particular, the audit focused on two key Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) learning technology initiatives: VicSmart and the Ultranet. The government's current policy for ICT in school education, the Digital Learning Statement (the Statement), does not provide a clear action...

This study asks the question: how do families with children conceived using donor sperm operate as the children grow up? And looks into the state of these relationships. The follow-up of children conceived through the Anonymous Donor Sperm project was designed to assess the adjustment of families conceived by donor sperm when the children were...

The completion of Year 12 or equivalent is an important predictor of future health, employment and welfare prospects and improves the ability of Victorians to participate socially and economically in their community. Despite a significant focus on addressing student completion rates over the past decade, the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) has...

The focus of this paper is on the factors, other than access, that influence the decision for Indigenous Australians to participate in education. The authors use a number of datasets to investigate 11 research questions relating to early childhood and post-school education participation and achievement. Overall, constraints on education participation and achievement appear at the...

This report begins by looking at the number of children who are out of school, some of whom have attended school at some point. It then presents the structure of national systems of compulsory education in order to identify the trajectories by which pupils progress – or not – through the education system. When are...