Australian School Millenials and the Common Good:

The Cardus Education Survey Australia Project (2020) and its landmark findings highlighted that the formation practices that occur across Australian school sector types, in partnership with the family and local community, have a significant impact on graduates’ contribution to the common good across contemporary Australian society. The Cardus Education Survey (CES) Australia findings identified the contribution to the common good of graduates from Government, Catholic, Independent, and Christian schooling sectors to the academic, vocational, social and civic development of a nationally representative sample of 4913 graduates who completed secondary school between 1998 and 2011.

Associated Christian Schools (ACS) commissioned a project to explore a detailed state-by state analysis and evaluation of the CES Australia project data sets, paying particular attention to the geographical, socio-cultural, metropolitan/non-metropolitan, and demographic profiles and dimensions that are contextualized within each Australian state and territory. ACS commissioned this research, in the interest of, and as a furtherance of, ‘the common good’ philosophy to which it adheres.