DEPARTMENT of EDUCATION
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Our report card

Key performance measures
  2002-03 2003-04 2004-05
Achievement  
Proportion of students successfully completing Year 121:  
Capital city 82% N/A N/A
Other city regions 68% N/A N/A
Other provincial and remote 60% N/A N/A
All students 73% N/A N/A
Proportion of TAFE graduate students employed following training 75% 75% 72%
Proportion of students successfully completing over 95% of their training 66.3% 70.6% 73.5%
Participation  
Apparent retention rate in Tasmanian government schools Years 7-12 72.9% 74.5% 76.0%
Proportion of the population aged 15-64 undertaking VET 10.1% 11.0% 11.8%
Participation of women aged 15-64 in VET 8.8% 9.7% 10.0%
Proportion of total VET students reporting as:  
Indigenous 2.9% 2.9% 3.5%
Having a disability 5.6% 6.7% 8.3%
From non-English speaking countries 5.7% 4.8% 3.9%
Number of students enrolled in VET in Schools courses 2,995 3,019 2,796
Proportion of councils with youth advisory committees 79% 83% 76%
Access  
Proportion of people aged 15-19 employed or in full-time education or training 89.7%2 90.5% 90.1%
Average annual student contact hours delivered through VET in Schools programs 351 395 303

 

Other performance measures
  2002-03 2003-04 2004-05
Achievement  
VET load pass rate 77.5% 81.6% 79.0%
VET qualifications completed 7,193 9,960 9,329
Participation  
Direct retention from Year 10 to 11 in government schools 66.3% 64.0% 63.0%
Proportion of people 20-24 in full- or part-time training 28.6% 28.2% 29.4%
Community involvement in and satisfaction with DoE  
Employers who believe the VET system provides graduates with skills appropriate to their needs (mean score rated out of 10)3 - - N/A
Number of TAFE graduates who believe they achieved or partly achieved the main reason for doing their VET studies 76% 77% 82%
Innovation, improvement and strategic development  
The proportion of VET students enrolled in training from national Training Packages 82.5% 85% 85.1%
Efficiency and resource management  
Actual VET activity as a proportion of national activity targets agreed with the Australian National Training Authority 112% 128% 130%
Unit cost of publicly funded VET - deviation from national average4 +7% -4% -7%

 

Participation of women aged 15-64 in VET

Graph showing participation of women aged 15-64 in VET.

Unit cost of publicly funded VET - deviation from national average

Graph showing unit cost of publicly funded VET.

 


1 Provisional figures only.
2 Data changed from original reporting year to be consistent with updated ABS information.
3 Data is from a triennial survey. 2004-05 figure not yet available.
4 Data adjusted annually to remove inflation effects.