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Lye, Jenny; Hirschberg, Joe – Education Economics, 2017
The recent growth in privately administered secondary education in many developed countries has been a widely observed phenomenon. The Australian private secondary school sector has grown faster than those in any other "OECD" nation, even though the average tuition fees charged by these schools have increased at double the nation's…
Descriptors: Fees, Private Schools, Tuition, High Schools
Carpenter, Peter – Youth Studies Bulletin, 1985
Australian year 12 students were surveyed to discover whether examination success rates vary with social background even when the types of schools young people attend are taken into account, and whether such examination success translates into different rates of higher education entry for young people of disadvantaged backgrounds and for their…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Background, Family Financial Resources