Staying at School Ain’t Silly. Andrew Leigh - Nicholas Gruen draws my attention to a piece on school completion by CIS researcher Peter Saunders (based on a longer paper here) [Broken Link - see below], who argues: Three-quarters of students currently stay to year 12, and most of them benefit from higher earnings and better job prospects as a result.…
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More Australians seeking qualifications. More Australians have been seeking higher educational qualifications, with the largest increase being in Bachelor Degrees, according to figures recently released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Nearly 2.5 million people (18% of all Australians aged 15-64) were enrolled in a course of study as at May 2007. The proportion with a non-school qualification (such as…
1.23 Million Students Will Fail to Graduate in 2008; New Data on U.S. Congressional Districts Detail Graduation Gaps Report Finds State-Level P-16 Councils Are Increasingly Popular but Often Lack Support, WASHINGTON
Structurally, this has been coming for a while and I can see some value in this if it is done correctly. There are dangers however, most notably in setting a price hurdle that will stop many from undertaking the very skills path they need because the risk/reward equation of deferred loans in this sector will be based on a lower…
the future of the organisation lies in working with local corporations to create unique training courses.
According to reports, TEACHING students would not graduate from university unless they passed national skills tests, under a Labor plan to improve literacy and numeracy in Australian schools. Source: Labor plan to lift skills of teachers. Theage.com.au
NCVER releases latest apprentice and trainee statistics. December 2006 quarter apprentice and trainee statistics for the Australian vocational education and training system are now available on the NCVER web site. [Adult Community Education Headlines]
Merit, yes... Although assumptions about future returns are predicated on current labour-force structures? The debt/liability is permanent! Jobs... not so much? HECS for TAFE: the case for extending income contingent loans. In this paper, a case is argued for introducing an income contingent loan to the VET sector. The economic underpinning is similar to the Higher Education Scheme (HECS) which…
Spur on IT whiz-kids and reclaim the clever country. Alan Noble, Engineering Director of Google Australia and NZ, outlines issues facing the IT sector in Australia, stating that there is a need to encourage IT careers and retain Australia's brightest IT professionals. Earlier this month it was revealed that the Australian annual IT deficit had reached $21 billion, with hardware…