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Governments have long emphasised the need to improve school completion rates, lift educational attainment and improve young people’s transitions from school. In Australia the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians agreed in December 2008 by education ministers in collaboration with the Catholic and independent school sectors expressed this goal in the following terms.
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McKenzie, P. (2012). Schools and the Foundation for Lifelong Learning. In: Aspin, D., Chapman, J., Evans, K., Bagnall, R. (eds) Second International Handbook of Lifelong Learning. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2360-3_32
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