The bar charts show the variation in the percentages of Australian male and female students for full-time and part-time education in 2006. Overall, both trends illustrate almost the same trends. Notably, the largest percentages belong to the age groups of 20–24 who studied part-time in both genders, while the trend for the other age brackets who attended classes was relatively lower. Interestingly, the oldest males and females studied more full-time than part-time, whereas the reverse was true for the rest of the age brackets, with exceptional equality in 25-29-year-old females.
Looking at the details of males’ education, around half of the total participation was made up of 20–24-year-old adults who educated part-time, with 40%, while this figure was 12% for the youngest age group and the same of 8 percentages for the two older age brackets. In terms of full-time education of men, 20–24-year-old adults were the dominant, as were part-time adults, with 12%, followed by 30 and over people with 10%. The male students aged 15–19 and 25–29 studying full-time accounted for 8% and 6%, respectively.
Females followed almost similar patterns. The age bracket of 20–24 was indicated with the highest percentages: 42% for part-time and 13% for full-time. The percentages for adults aged 15–19 were 17% and 7%, educating part-time and full-time, respectively. In comparison, the proportion of 30 and over educators who studied full-time was twice as high as that of part-time students, and the percentages of 25–29-year-old adults were the same for both education types, at 8%.