Having long finished 12 years of schooling it never occured to me that the ACT is one of two remaining state/territories that has a lower school leaving age than everyone else.
I was appraised of the discrepancy by this story on ABC online which outlines Andrew Barr’s proposal to increase the school leaving age to 16. He’s quick to caution that it will require lots of committee’s and debate to ensure its not ” solely focused on staying at school, that we need to look a the range of different education pathways.” Whatever that means.
What impact this will have on the 10% of students that dont finish their education is anybodys guess.