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School dropout rates hit 10-year-high, according to Productivity Commission report

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Around two in every five Australians between the ages of 15 in 24 who left school in 2022 did not enter full time work or study in the year following(AFP / Martin Bureau )

One in every five children in Australia are not completing their full 13 years of basic education.

That’s according to new data released overnight in the Productivity Commission’s Report on Government Services.

The dropout rate of students has reached a 10-year-high with just over half of all young Australians leaving school to participate in further education or enter full-time work.
 
GUEST: Dr Jordana Hunter, Education Program Director at the Grattan Institute.

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