The Next Step report 2006 on the destinations of Year 12 completers in Queensland

This report documents the results of the statewide survey of the destinations of students who completed Year 12 in government and non-government schools across Queensland in 2005. The survey results show the initial study and work destinations of young people after completing school. The survey was conducted in order to assist: parents and the wider public to know the achievements of students and to appreciate the range of options available to students; schools to review and plan their services for students, especially in the senior years of schooling; school systems to review their education policies as they affect the transition from school to further study and employment; and training bodies, universities, business and industry, local government and regional planners to plan their services. The pathways of Year 12 completers were categorised into 10 main destinations and respondents who were both studying and working were reported as studying for their main destination. Key findings are that: more than 90 per cent of Year 12 completers were studying or in paid employment; about two-thirds (65.3 per cent) continued in some recognised form of education and training in the year after they left school; nearly four in 10 were undertaking a university degree (36.7 per cent); approximately three in 10 (28.6 per cent) were studying vocational education and training (VET); more than half of the campus-based VET students were studying at Certificate IV level or higher (7.1 per cent); over one in seven (15.1 per cent) were undertaking employment-based training, either as an apprentice (9.0 per cent) or trainee (6.1 per cent); and one in three (34.7 per cent) did not enter post-school education or training and were either employed (27.3 per cent), looking for work (5.7 per cent) or neither working, seeking work or studying (1.7 per cent). Show less