Australia Yearbook - 2001

10 Education and training
Introduction 403
Article—Education then and now 403
Commonwealth and State government responsibilities in
education and training 403
Preschool education 404
Primary and secondary education 404
School attendance 404
School organisation and operation 404
Primary schooling 405
Secondary schooling 405
Schools, students and teaching staff 405
Other schooling arrangements 408
Apparent retention rates 408
Funding of schools 409
Article—Adelaide Declaration on National Goals for Schooling in
the Twenty-first Century 410
Tertiary education 412
Higher education 412
Staff 412
Students and courses 413
Funding 414
Vocational education and training 415
Vocational Education and Training institutions 415
Apprenticeships and traineeships 416
Education and training characteristics of the population 417
Educational attainment 417
Participation in education 419
Educational attendance and the labour force 419
Adult and community education 420