This report finds one in eight Australians will never attain a Year 12 qualification, and some of these people make up the one in eight Australians who will be disengaged from the workforce for most of their lives.

The Ministry of Education is increasing the tools available to schools, to help them increase their understanding of absence and its impact on achievement. As a part of this, we are making changes to our yearly report on student attendance. Every day a student is not at school is a day they are not learning...

This paper reviews literature related to the intersectionality of gender and educational attainment, with a special focus on the circumstances surrounding the Australian Indigenous population. Using two sources of data, the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we conducted difference-in-difference analyses to better understand differences by gender...

Explores Australian and international literature to develop an understanding of the risk factors and protective factors involved in strengthening school attendance. Abstract Issue 4 of ACER's Policy Insights series commences with a synthesis of publicly available data on school attendance by Indigenous Australians, highlighting areas of major risk. It explores Australian and international literature to...

The report contains data on tertiary education trends and changes for the year ended December 2014. Summary The key findings of New Zealand's Annual Tertiary Enrolments for 2014 were: 418,000 students were enrolled in formal study programmes in 2014, including 53,900 international students. Enrolment numbers increased from 2013 to 2014 for domestic students aged 18...