In April 2005, in a Ministerial Statement to Parliament, the then Minister of Education indicated the intention to conduct a longitudinal study on student outcomes.
The resultant Next Step Longitudinal study will annually track, through to the age of 24, a large sample of young people who completed Year 12 in 2005, and participated in the 2006 Next Step survey (the first wave of the longitudinal study).
This makes the Next Step Longitudinal study Australia's most comprehensive post-school destination study which will inform deeper understanding of longer term social and economic outcomes of the educational system and supplement the valuable 'point-in-time' information provided by the annual Next Step survey.
More detailed investigations and reporting of post-school pathways taken by young Queenslanders will become possible with each subsequent annual collection.
The Next Step Longitudinal 2009 report is the third report on the findings of the Next Step Longitudinal study and as such investigates the pathways between two points in time (six months and nearly four years since leaving school).
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