The quantitative data analysed below compares the educational outcomes for each of the student cohorts131 along the key dimensions of retention, success, and transition rates to university study. It has been extracted from the schools’ and the University’s data records, from interviews with school staff, from the range of evaluations of the Diploma in University Studies,132 and from the DETYA paper on the Enabling Program referred to above.133 This 2001 paper concluded that current educational outcomes from courses funded by the Enabling Program are very poor, in particular in terms of the number of students successfully completing their enabling courses and the number making the transition to award level study.134 It is therefore a matter of some significance whether or not the educational outcomes from the UniSA-PAL pilot are better than those in the equivalent bridging component of the Enabling Program, with relevance well beyond the institution or the state within which the UniSA-PAL pilot is being conducted. The comparison between outcomes for the UniSA-PAL cohort and for the Diploma in University Studies students is also relevant to the same issue in terms of identifying an effective alternative model for bridging programs for disadvantaged adults wanting to enter higher education.