Aboriginal Education

Education in Australia for teenage Aboriginal people is a big issue for the Government of Australia and has been for sometime. Large numbers of Aboriginal young people will risk long term unemployment upon leaving school if the current rate at which they participate and achieve in eduction, throughout Australia is drastically improved.
Today Aborigines in Australia have the worst year 12 retention rate in the country of 20%. A study has shown that 37% of Aboriginal students are regularly truant and 8% are not even enrolled in any school. …