and worsening.
This is on top of the speculation that Australian education quality is declining.
This problem will not be solved until the reasons for drop-outs are analyzed. A good start would be updated information, not the 2009 information in the story below dated 2017.
It's arguable that drop-outs cause a waste of resources and money. However, it's also arguable that any education is beneficial, even partial degree completion or completion of a few subjects.
But it's also said there are insufficient jobs for current graduates, so having more graduates is not necessarily a good thing.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/education/third-of-university-s... Quote:Third of university students failing to complete course
Australia’s university dropout rate is worsening, with one in three students failing to complete the course they began within six years of enrolling, prompting the federal government to name the country’s worst performing institutions for the first time.
As the government moves to force universities to become more transparent about graduate outcomes, a new Department of Education report shows only 66.7 percent of students who enrolled in 2009 completed their courses within six years.
The worst universities for student completions have fewer than half of all enrolled students graduating within six years of beginning a course, in many cases leaving behind debts to the commonwealth never to be repaid.
Dropout rates are the highest in Queensland and the Northern Territory, where there are more indigenous, rural and remote students, while universities in the ACT and Victoria have the country’s best completion rates.
Just over 40 per cent of students who enrolled at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory, Central Queensland University and the University of Southern Queensland had completed courses within six years, suggesting a combined dropout of more than 20,000 students.
University of Melbourne had the best completion rate, 88 per cent, which was almost 4 per cent higher than in 2010, while the University of Sydney and the Australian National University also recorded completion rates above 80 per cent.