The current research training system (RTS) seems to be working reasonably well, producing high quality and innovative researchers in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (ASSH). One challenge that the sector faces is ensuring the appropriateness of Higher Degree by Research (HDR) scholarship, for those graduates not wishing to pursue an academic career, given the...

Abstract Whenever the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) are announced, media headlines are full of reports about rankings, about how many countries Australia is outperformed by and outperforms. In early rounds of PISA, Australia ranked among the top 10 countries across all three education domains assessed. However, over time Australia’s position...

The NQF Snapshot Q2 2015 is ACECQA’s 10th national report on children’s education and care services operating under the National Quality Framework. Snapshot highlights include: ·14,910 children’s education and care services operating under the NQF across Australia ·9347 or 63% of services have received a quality rating ·66% of assessed services are Exceeding or Meeting...

From 2011 to 2014 a set of five national priorities directed research into selected aspects of Australia’s tertiary education and training sector. The body of work published by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) over this period has explored many of the challenges facing the sector and pointed to some of the solutions...

The NQF Snapshot Q1 2015 is ACECQA’s ninth national report on children’s education and care services. The data presented in this Snapshot was taken from the National Quality Agenda IT System (NQA ITS) on 1 April 2015 for the quarter ending 31 March 2015. To demonstrate change over time, the data is compared with data...