A more comprehensive picture of young people’s (aged 15 to 19 years) educational pathways is now available showing 82.7% of young Australians were enrolled in education and training in 2014.
Published by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Young people in education and training 2014, provides data on the number students enrolled in school, vocational education and training (VET) and university.
“The release of more comprehensive training data by NCVER in early November, under the first collection of ‘total VET activity’, provides a clearer picture and more valuable insight into the educational pathways young people take”, said Dr Mette Creaser, National Manager, Statistics and Analytics.
“Prior to this year, data were only available for government-funded training activity. With total VET activity, we now know that there were 825 100 young people enrolled in VET in 2014.”
While almost all 15 and 16 year-olds were at school, at 19 years of age, 31.6% were enrolled in higher education courses, 10.0% were undertaking apprenticeships or traineeships and 11.2% were enrolled in other VET programs.
Comparing data between 2013 and 2014 for 15-19 year olds, the report shows the number of:
- school students increased by 1.4% to 823 700
- VET in Schools students decreased by 1.3% to 236 600
- apprentices and trainees decreased by 7.1% to 78 300
- government-funded VET students decreased by 6.7% to 418 000
- higher education students increased by 4.3% to 324 900.
Copies of Australian vocational education and training statistics: Young people in education and training 2014, are available from www.ncver.edu.au/publications/2845.html.
This work has been produced by NCVER on behalf of the Australian Government and state and territory governments, with funding provided through the Australian Department of Education and Training.
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