Education Engagement Strategy: Reflections Paper: An Analysis of the Northern Territory Department of Education Consultations for Education Engagement Strategy Project

One of the most significant and pressing issues facing education in the Northern Territory is student engagement in learning. Despite many strategic interventions and actions over time to engage students in learning at the whole of system level, student attendance continues to decline, and young people continue to disengage from education. This has been evident for students in primary and secondary years and across all geolocations but is more pronounced in very remote areas.
To understand the underlying drivers causing this decline, the Department of Education (DoE) has sought the views of students, parents, families, educators, school staff, communities and non-government organisations, through consultations and written submissions.
The department wants to know what schools, early years programs and services, and the education system can do to engage all children and young people in learning.