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Australia’s education system is failing up to one in three children and young people, according to the first major study to assess progress against our current national education goals.

Australia’s education system is failing up to one in three children and young people, according to a major study.

Young Australians need education in order to thrive in a complex and uncertain world. But new evidence shows our education system is not up to the task.

The primary objective of the Universal Access National Partnership is ‘to facilitate children’s early learning and development and transition to school.

One of the more elusive goals of education research is answering the question: what makes one school perform better than another?

Counting the costs of lost opportunity in Australian education finds that for the 2014 group of 24-year-olds who weren’t earning or learning.

One in eight Australians will never get Year 12 qualifications.

There are huge costs associated with lost opportunity in Australia.

Early school leavers and disengaged young people aren’t automatically ‘finding their way’ and it has a life-long impact.

Large numbers of young Australians are not succeeding in education and training, and it’s costing taxpayers billions of dollars each year.

Latest PISA results show around 40 percent of Australian children are not meeting proficiency levels in science, maths and reading, and there are alarming education gaps across the country.

This paper finds that to harness data potential, we must build better ways to analyse, share and use data.