The Australian 17 April 2012 More than a quarter of Victorian students who defer from university don't return to study or further education or training, new research says. The 2011 Deferring a University Offer in Victoria report shows 61% students who deferred in 2010 were attending university in 2011. A further 11.8% had entered vocational education and training, 4.3 % were in apprenticeships or traineeships, 20% were working, 1.9% were jobless and 1% were classified as “inactive”. In regionalVictoria, the rate of deferral rose from 9.9% in 2004 to 15.6% in 2011. Regional students are also four times more likely to not take up their studies because they are waiting to qualify for … [Read more...]
