Adolescent Education and Pre-Employment Interventions in Australia
Keeping Young People in Education, Employment and Training
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About one in ten young people in Australia are neither in employment, education or training (NEET), a factor that may lower their long-term economic prospects and threaten their well-being. Individuals who did not graduate from upper secondary education, who have health limitations, or who are Indigenous are over-represented in this group. Preventative policies and interventions targeted at adolescents in their early- to mid-teens can reduce the share of young people out of employment, education and training. This report explores what is known about the potential preventative impact of educational and pre-employment interventions on later NEET status and presents a range of policies and initiatives from across the OECD that can reduce the NEET probability among key at-risk populations. The report covers interventions to prevent early school leaving and to promote student engagement and motivation; to strengthen career education, career guidance and employer engagement; and to improve the perception of the vocational education and training (VET) system and the learning of VET students. The report also provides recommendations on improving the monitoring and evaluation of youth policies in general and policies to keep young people in employment, education and training in particular.
Embedding interventions into a strengthened monitoring and evaluation system
This chapter discusses the importance of monitoring and evaluation in guiding policy making. The chapter reviews four aspects that are considered crucial for the implementation of a rigorous Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system: data infrastructure, ethical oversight and data privacy considerations, data quality and dissemination. For each of these topics, the chapter provides examples of good practices in OECD countries and ends with some reflections about how Australia could strengthen its M&E system in the youth domain.
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