At age 15, background characteristics, like strong academic performance and a high sense of ability, overwhelmingly influence levels of school engagement, not a school’s attributes.
The quality and rigour of assessments in VET have been key concerns for VET policy-makers, which questions the credibility of VET qualifications.
Parental influence plays a significant role in their children's educational aspirations.
The authors of this paper explore whether low socioeconomic status (SES) students benefit to a greater or lesser extent from attending high-quality schools when compared with their more advantaged peers.
This report uses Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) data to look at the impact of schools on a student’s tertiary entrance rank (TER) and the probability of them going to university (controlling for TER).