Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students reach their full potential through further education pathways
Target 6: By 2031, increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 25-34 years who have completed a tertiary qualification (Certificate III and above) to 70 per cent.
Indicators:
Drivers:
- Higher education commencement (university component), attrition, and completion rates (time series, cohort analyses - 4, 6 and 9 years)
- Higher education application, offers and acceptance rates (by gender, SES and ATAR levels)
- Cert III and above VET commencements, attrition and completion rates
Contextual Information:
- Field of Education for higher education and VET
- Higher education students’ views on outcomes, behaviours and satisfaction
- Destinations and satisfaction of higher education graduates
- VET graduate outcomes and satisfaction levels
- Progress towards parity
Disaggregation:
- States/territories
- Remoteness areas
- Socio-economic status of the locality
- Proportions completing tertiary qualifications by highest qualification achieved (Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) level)
- Disability status
- Gender
Data Development:
Explore options to measure and report:
- costs and barriers to tertiary enrolment and completions, students in receipt of scholarship/s
- student health status
- proportion of students who are first in their family to undertake higher education
- proportion of school-leavers going into higher-level VET and Higher education, by qualification level