Education and labour market outcomes for Indigenous young people

The focus of this briefing is on the findings from the 1995 and 1998 LSAY cohorts of the Year 9 Indigenous students. It looks at attitudes of Indigenous students to, and engagement with, school, their achievement in reading, comprehension and mathematics, their participation in Year 12 and subject choice in Year 12, their transition from school, their postsecondary education, training and employment, and their satisfaction with life and work. Highlights include: most Year 9 Indigenous students aspire to complete Year 12 and go on to further education; Indigenous school students are less likely to complete Year 12 than non-Indigenous students; the participation of Indigenous students in vocational education and training is about the same as non-Indigenous students; and by age 22, most Indigenous young people have undertaken some form of further study and are engaged in full-time employment to the same extent as non-Indigenous young people. Show less