Reports
Systemic data and parliamentary inquiry provide an essential complement to academic research.
This collection brings together key government and sector reports documenting the state of student engagement, attendance, wellbeing and learning outcomes across Australian schooling, alongside significant international reports where other systems confront the same challenges.
Together, they build a picture of disengagement not as an isolated classroom problem but as a systemic concern requiring coordinated policy attention.
The Economics of Effective Transitions: Improving Young People’s Transitions Through Clearer Pathways.
- Learning Creates Australia
- 2025
One in five young Australians does not complete secondary school. One in six is unemployed or underemployed at age 25. And yet the main credential we use to measure success at Year 12 — the ATAR — is not used by 75% of young people. Something is broken in the connection between schooling and what comes after it, and this report puts a dollar figure on what fixing it could be worth.
The Economics of More Capable Young People: Improving Young People’s Social and Emotional Skills for Learning.
- Learning Creates Australia
- 2025
The argument for investing in students' social and emotional development has long been made on moral and educational grounds. This report makes it on economic ones — and the numbers are striking.
The state education system in Victoria – Parlimentary Inquiry
- Legislative Council Legal and Social Issues Committee
- 2024
This parliamentary inquiry examines the breadth of Victoria's government school system, from learning outcomes and student wellbeing through to funding, workforce and governance.
Everyday matters: Improving school attendance in Australia
- Jordana Hunter, Amy Haywood, and Molly Chapman - Grattan Institute
- 2025
Australia's school attendance crisis is worse than most realise. Only 62% of students now attend regularly — compared to 82% in England — and the decline...