Disengaged youth cause for concern

MORE than a quarter of young Australians are neither learning nor earning in the years after school, a report says.

Experts are concerned if the disengaged youth of Australia aren't drawn back into the economy they could become a "lost" generation.

The new COAG Reform Council report on education, released on Wednesday, shows the proportion of 17- to 24-year-olds not fully engaged in work or study grew to 27.3 per cent in 2011.

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory were above the national average while in the ACT just 17 per cent of youth were not fully engaged.

The report found there were more in full-time study but fewer in full-time work in 2011 than in 2006.

Council deputy chairman Greg Craven said the global financial crisis and subsequent drop in jobs available would have had an impact.

He said all those young people weren't necessarily sitting around doing nothing - they could be in part-time study or work, but not enough hours a week to count as fully engaged.

Nevertheless, the results were worrying.

"This is a very, very complicated problem," he told reporters in Canberra.

"More research would be good because we don't want people in that age group to become entrenched in non-participation."

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