People who have participated in post secondary study have greatly improved employment prospects. They are also more likely to earn higher incomes. An individual’s education can also affect their health, and the health of their children, as well as their ability to make informed life decisions.
Positive outcomes in virtually all of the strategic areas for action could contribute to better educational achievement.
KEY MESSAGES
Although not strictly comparable, between 1994 and 2004-05 the proportion of Indigenous people participating in post secondary education increased from 5 per cent to 11 per cent (table 3A.4.2).
The proportion of Indigenous people with a qualification of certificate level 3 or above increased from 8 per cent in 1994 to 21 per cent in 2004-05 (figure 3.4.3).
In 2004-05, non-Indigenous people were more than twice as likely as Indigenous people to have completed a post secondary qualification of certificate level 3 or above (table 3A.4.10).
Higher education success rates (between 2001 and 2004) and TAFE pass rates (between 2002 and 2005) increased for Indigenous students (figures 3.4.4 and 3.4.5).
THINGS THAT WORK
The Australian Master Bricklayers Association and the Victorian Department of Education are working in partnership to provide construction skills and work readiness training to unemployed Indigenous people living in Robinvale (box 3.4.2).
A training culture in many Queensland prisons has contributed to a decrease in the probability of Indigenous offenders returning to custody (box 3.4.2).
A program developed in 2004 in partnership between the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union and TAFE NSW is assisting unemployed Indigenous people interested in working in the building and construction industry (box 3.4.2).
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