Credentialism has distorted the direction and basis of half a century’s education and training policy, argues Dean Ashenden.

The Foundation for Young Australians has produced a series of reports to understand the economic and social conditions affecting young people today and into the future – and to chart a course for how we best prepare young people to drive economic and social progress in decades to come. The New Work Order report argues...

The recent launch of the National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA) sets out four interrelated clusters of initiatives with a collective purpose to increase productivity, support high wage jobs and the next wave of economic prosperity. But, writes Dr Craig Fowler NCVER’s Managing Director, other initiatives essential to an effective national innovative system are largely...

This Report addresses the Terms of Reference of the Senate Economics References Committee inquiry into the Australian Innovation System. The Report recommends that Government should take action, in collaboration with research organisations and business, to lift innovation performance in five Strategic Action Areas: leadership and policy direction; building enterprise capability; lifting investment in science and...

This inquiry looks at the challenges to Australian industries and jobs posed by increasing global competition in innovation, science, engineering, research and education. Innovation has consistently been acknowledged as a fundamental driver of productivity and economic growth which can deliver positive social and environmental outcomes by peak international bodies, key industry stakeholders, government and academia...