An independent analysis of the existing investment in support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander secondary students attending boarding. This evaluation aims to improve understanding of the benefits and impacts of the existing investment in boarding provision.

The Productivity Commission has commenced a review of the National School Reform Agreement. The review will examine how well national policy initiatives by the Australian, and State and Territory Governments, have achieved the objectives and outcomes set out in the Agreement. This call for submissions paper outlines a range of issues on which the Commission...

Education inequity is a problem in Australia. The authors of this paper argue that we need to re-think what counts as ‘success.’

This report offers a comprehensive review of vocational education and training (VET) in Australia, confirming Australia’s VET system shows growing signs of erosion, fragmentation and dysfunction. It asserts that several high-profile government announcements during the pandemic designed to address skilled labour shortages have not altered the VET system’s worrying trajectory.

This report is the second part of a project investigating how the quality of delivery in vocational education and training (VET) in Australia is currently defined and measured, and how registered training organisations (RTOs) use and value measures of quality. The project also set out to identify the approaches that might be more effective in...