The aim of the vocational education and training (VET) for Secondary School Students program, formerly referred to as VET in Schools program, is potentially to give students an advantage by providing access to training that combines classroom-based learning with experience in actual or simulated workplaces. Importantly, the program also enables them to complete their secondary school studies. The benefits of the VET for Secondary School Students program (hereinafter referred to as VfSSS) can be assessed by the extent to which it prepares students for employment and further training -- a measure favoured by industry and to some degree by government -- and the extent to which it fulfills the objectives that schools have for their students in relation to this program. These include developing awareness of career options and gaining the skills and knowledge necessary for navigating their life and work journeys. On occasions these two purposes for VfSSS conflict. The research presented in this report looks at school students who undertook a VfSSS program in 2011 and investigates whether they are in work and/or further studies four to five years later (2016), as well as exploratory analysis of data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY 2009 commencing cohort) to enable comparisons between VfSSS and non-VfSSS students. The authors look specifically at the employment and further training or education destinations and outcomes of students participating in these programs, including the type and level of training they undertake and the relevance of their VfSSS courses to the type of jobs they were employed in four to five years after leaving school.