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The impact of school academic quality on low socioeconomic status students
Patrick Lim, Sinan Gemici, Tom Karmel
This paper explores whether low socioeconomic status (SES) students benefit from attending high-quality schools when compared with their more advantaged peers. The research finds that academic school quality is even more important for students from low-SES backgrounds in terms of Year 12 completion. The differential impact for low-SES students also holds for tertiary entrance rank (TER) and the probability of going to university.
http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/2640.html
Australian vocational education and training statistics: apprentices and trainees 2013 - early trend estimates, June quarter
NCVER
This publication presents early estimates of apprentice and trainee commencements for the June quarter 2013. The most recent figures are estimated, taking into account reporting lags that occur at the time of data collection.
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Five research projects awarded to tackle tertiary education and training issues
NCVER has awarded five research grants in the 2013 open-category funding round to conduct research relevant to the contemporary tertiary education and training environment.
They are A binary system of tertiary education: past ideas and contemporary policy, lead by Francesca Beddie, Francesca M Beddie and Associates; Competency completion: impacts on assessment, assessors and workplace supervisors, lead by Hugh Guthrie, Work-based Education Research Centre, Victoria University; Supporting students with disabilities: exploring individual and system-level approaches, lead by Ellie Fossey, La Trobe University; VET providers delivering associate and bachelor degrees: issues and impacts, lead by Victor Callan, Callan Consulting Group; and Young Australian apprentices: structures of support and wellbeing, lead by John Buchanan and Catherine Raffaele, Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney with Nick Glozier from The Brain and Mind Research Institute.
http://www.ncver.edu.au/newsevents/mediareleases/mr_172.html
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