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Improving the Participation of Disadvantaged Students in Post-Compulsory Education and Training: A Continuing Challenge

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The early 1980s were a time of great expansion and structural change in Australian education, when Hughes and his research colleagues at the University of Tasmania began their influential longitudinal cohort study of the post-compulsory education, training, or employment careers of 14,000 Tasmanian students who completed Year 10 in 1981 and 1986 (Abbott-Chapman et al., 1986a, b, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992). Rising public expectations of the role of education in society and a desire by government to develop the “human capital” of the nation to meet the expanding economy’s growing demand for graduates, had characterized the 1960s and 1970s.

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Abbott-Chapman, J. (2007). Improving the Participation of Disadvantaged Students in Post-Compulsory Education and Training: A Continuing Challenge. In: Maclean, R. (eds) Learning and Teaching for the Twenty-First Century. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5773-1_16

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