Article 2010

Cancellation of indigenous Australians from the apprenticeship training contract

MJ
Mangan, John E.
 TB
Trendle, Bernard
Education Economics
Journal · Vol. 18 · Issue 4 · pp. 377-394
Abstract

The vocational education and training (VET) sector is a major pathway to postschool education for indigenous students, yet questions are being raised about the capacity of the VET system to provide successful outcomes for the indigenous apprentices and trainees it attracts. Within a system plagued by high cancellation rates in general, indigenous apprentices appear to do particularly badly. This paper combines data from an administrative database on apprenticeship with income data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing to provide an analysis of attrition rates for apprenticeship training contracts in Queensland, asking: Are cancellation rates for indigenous students significantly higher than those for nonindigenous students, and, if so, what factors are responsible for this? © 2010 Taylor & Francis.

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Author Keywords

Vocational education pathways Indigenous duration analysis Cancellation rates

Index Keywords

training Vocational education student Australia Queensland indigenous population
Author Affiliations
Department of Economics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Department of Education and Training, Labour Market Research Unit, Brisbane, QL, Australia
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