1. Introduction -- Equal opportunity -- Terma of reference -- Poverty and children -- Education, work and life chances -- 2. Unequal outcomes of schooling -- The pattern of schooling -- Students at school -- Education and incomes -- Summary -- Recommendation -- 3. Children at risk -- Early school leavers -- Poverty and early leaving -- Migrants -- Schooling in rural areas -- School experience and early leaving -- Summary Recommendations -- 4. School policy : The role of teachers -- School supports -- Strategies for learning -- School policy and career education -- Summary -- Recommendations -- 5. Learning and work : Early leavers and the search for competence -- Poor jobs and poor people -- Re-entry to learning -- Migrants in poor jobs -- Summary -- Recommendations -- 6. Aboriginals and education : Educational policies -- Schooling and the Aboriginal child -- The statistical picture -- Non-achievement of educational aims -- Aboriginal aims - educational and general -- Role of non-Aboriginals -- The future -- Summary -- Recommendations -- 7. Perspectives -- 8. Recommendations
Summary
Educational policies; statistics on attendance; employment; Aboriginal values against goals of white education; adult education; teacher training; school-community relations; recommendations; bilingual programmes