The estimable National Centre for Vocational Education and Training is reporting projections of completion rates for all-of-VET courses started in 2015-16. The centre was tasked with adding private sector data to that from public providers a few years back and the stats are starting to flow.

Overall completions for total courses commenced in 2016, at all providers, are estimated at 47 per cent. This breaks down to 48 per cent at private providers, 47 per cent at community providers and 43 per cent at TAFE.  The figures are better for publicly funded study, 49 per cent for all VET programmes and 60 per cent for FT students under 25 in their first post school course.