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Download full textBoon, Helen J. – Australian Educational Researcher, 2008
Dropping out of school has been associated with a student's ethnicity, socioeconomic status, challenging behaviours and low academic achievement. This paper describes research conducted with 1050 students aged 12-15, in three North Queensland urban high schools to investigate issues related to Indigenous and non-Indigenous students at risk of…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Academic Achievement, High Risk Students, Family Structure
James, Pauline; St. Leger, Pam; Ward, Kevin – 2001
The objective of the Australian Commonwealth's Full Service Schools (FSS) Program has been to provide additional support to schools to develop innovative programs and arrangements that address the specific needs of students who are considered at risk of not completing Year 12 to a satisfactory level. The target group has been students primarily 16…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Foreign Countries, High Risk Students
Peer reviewedMcFadden, Mark G. – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 1996
Reports on an ethnographic project examining an Australian program designed to provide homeless adolescents with access to secondary education. Focuses on the relationships among groups of students within the program and explores the way that education can either reinforce disadvantage or offer access to opportunity. (MJP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Continuation Students, Disadvantaged Environment, Dropouts
Technology Univ.-Sydney, Broadway (Australia). Research Centre for Vocational Education and Training. – 1999
This publication is comprised of 12 position papers from the National Equity Workshop held at the University of Technology Sidney (Australia) at which participants summarized their positions on the way equity should be understood, their views on the strengths and weaknesses of current vocational education and training (VET) policy, and what they…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Community Organizations, Correctional Education
