Performance Performance Measure 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 Actual 1 Actual 1 Target Attainment measures for 15–19 year-olds, achieving: 2013–14 Target 120 credit points in education and training 4,178 4,438 4,395 4,595 some vocational education and training 2 5,591 7,634 7,600 7,900 a Tasmanian Certificate of <strong>Education</strong> 2,878 3,179 3,075 3,404 a tertiary entrance rank 2,224 2,237 2,428 2,382 NSSC Census 3 8,470 8,592 8,200 8,300 Apparent retention rate Years 10–12 4 70.4 67.0 71.0 71.0 Full year training equivalents 5 14,600 N/A 14,600 14,700 Training participation rate 5 14.1 N/A 14.3 14.5 Student Satisfaction – Graduates 6 90.6 90.3 90.0 91.0 Student Satisfaction – Module Completers 6 79.2 90.9 87.0 91.0 Sources: Tasmanian Qualifications Authority, National Schools Statistics Collection (NSSC), Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Schools, Australia (cat. no. 4221.0), NCVER Student Outcomes Survey 2012, Annual National Report of the Australian Vocational <strong>Education</strong> and Training System 2011. Notes: 1. Actual performance measures are based on calendar years. The measures for the 2010–11 Actual are based on the 2011 calendar year, while the measures for 2011–12 Actual are based on the 2012 calendar year. Completion and participation rates are affected by economic circumstances and targets assume these circumstances, especially youth employment opportunities, will remain stable over this period. Some figures vary from figures published in the department’s budget papers (2012–13) due to a more recent data set being available for this report. 2. From 2012–13, this measure includes Vocational <strong>Education</strong> and Training (VET) data sourced from all non-government registered training authorities. 3. Actuals are the total full-time equivalent (FTE) for further education students regardless of age, at the Mid-Year Census. The 2012–13 and 2013–14 targets represent a slight reduction associated with forecasts of student cohort size. 4. Apparent Retention Rate is a measure of the number of school students in a designated year of education expressed as a percentage of their respective cohort group in a base year. Figures relate to full-time government school students. Retention improved significantly in 2010 due to a combination of many factors, most notably students studying longer, new entrants to the Further <strong>Education</strong> and Training system who had not previously been enrolled in a Tasmanian Government school and adults returning to the sector after breaks in education. For small populations like Tasmania, the ABS notes that relatively small changes in student numbers can create large movements in apparent retention rates. ABS also notes that care should be exercised in the interpretation of apparent retention rates as the method of calculation does not take into account a range of factors such as: • students progressing at a faster or slower than expected rate of one grade-level a year • interstate/international migration • movement between government and non-government sectors • enrolment policies • students enrolled in alternative education and training pathways, such as vocational education and training. Sustained improvement in retention is long term in nature and will be subject to variations from year to year. 5. Participation (age 15–64) in all publicly funded VET and commercial activity by government providers. Participation rates are derived by calculating total student numbers in the age group as a percentage of the estimated residential population in that age group. The participation rate is sensitive to enrolments in short courses. 6. The 2011–12 actual data is not available at the time of publication. Preliminary 2011–12 data was planned to be available in late May 2013 and published on the Skills Tasmania website. These figures will be verified with National Centre for Vocational <strong>Education</strong> Research (NCVER) data in July. 7. Student satisfaction is the percentage of a sample of students surveyed by the NCVER who reported that they were satisfied with the overall quality of training. 48 Post-Compulsory <strong>Education</strong> and Skills Development
LINC Tasmania OUTPUT GROUP 3