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School Students And Part-Time Work, Lyn Robinson
School Students And Part-Time Work, Lyn Robinson
LSAY Research Reports
This report is about student-workers. The youthful part-time workers encountered in supermarket delicatessens, hot bread shops and fast food stores throughout Australia in the 1990s are very likely to also be full-time secondary school students. Over the past two to three decades, the increasing number of students who combine study at school with part-time employment outside of school hours has been widely observed, although estimates of how many school students have jobs vary greatly. Furthermore, while the trend has been well recognised, its implications have frequently been overlooked. Consideration of the student-worker phenomenon gives rise to a number of questions …
Completing School In Australia: Trends In The 1990s, Stephen Lamb
Completing School In Australia: Trends In The 1990s, Stephen Lamb
LSAY Research Reports
To help examine the recent downturn in school completion rates in Australia this report makes use of two sources of data. The first is from the Schools Australia series published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The figures provided by this series are compiled from enrolment information collected from schools by individual state and territory departments of education as well as by the Commonwealth Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs. The figures provide aggregate information on school retention and participation by state and school system. The second set of data is from the Australian Youth Survey which …