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All you need to know about education in Australia

A selection of websites from our database is provided below concerning the following topics:

• Springe zu: Overviews of the education system in Australia
• Springe zu: Educational reports on and education statistics for Australia

 You will find further websites and literature on Australia here:

1. Websites on Australia
2. Literature on Australia  (German Education Research Portal)

Overviews of the education system in Australia

Egypt; Ethiopia; Algeria; Angola; Argentina; Australia; Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belarus; Belgium [...]
The PEER portal is obviously the successor to the earlier Unesco Country Dossiers (see the Internet Archive). [...]

international; Australia; Canada; England; France; Germany; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Japan [...]
INCA (1996-2013) provided descriptions of government policy on education in Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, [...]

international; Australia; Austria; Belgium; China, People's Republic of; Chile; Czechia; Germany; Hungary; Ireland [...]
The review aims to bridge the gap between learning and jobs, by exploring how to make initial vocational education and training for young people respond better to labour market requirements. It therefore looks at initial VET [...]

Australia
The Australian Education Report is integrated into an overarching "Report on Government Services" and can be found in Chapter B "Child care, Education and Training". You can find reports starting in 1995. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Australia
The Australian Education Performance Reporting Dashboard provides statistics and graphs on the achievement of specific targets identified in various so-called agreements. The following agreements are analyzed in terms of their objectives:
* National School Reform Agreement
* National Education Agreement
* National [...]

Educational reports on and education statistics for Australia

Australia
The Australian Government Department of Education and Training is responsible for national policies and programmes that help Australians access quality early childhood education, school education, higher education, vocational education and training, international education and research.

Australia
The role of the National Centre for Education and Training Statistics, which is based at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), is to provide timely and relevant data covering a wide range of education and training issues, and to coordinate the development and provision of national statistics in the field of education and [...]

Australia
"The role of The New South Wales Board of Adult and Community Education (NSW BACE) is to promote the provision of adult and community education in NSW, to allocate government funds to ACE providers in NSW and to advise the Minister of needs and trends in ACE." Its website provides links to ACE Colleges in NSW and other ACE related [...]

Australia
The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) is Australia's principal research and evaluation organisation for the vocational education and training sector in Australia. It is an independent organisation responsible to a board of directors representing employers, unions, education and training organisations, [...]

Australia
The site contains information about the public schools in New South Wales: departmental information, information for teachers, students and parents (documents, curricula, e-journal, calender of events, links to related organistaions, statistical data).

Australia
The AVCC is the peak organisation representing Australian universities nationally and internationally. It seeks to advance higher education through voluntary, cooperative and coordinated action. Besides a description of AVCC, its policies and actions, the website provides information about Australian universities (overview of the [...]

Egypt; Ethiopia; Algeria; Angola; Argentina; Australia; Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belarus; Belgium [...]
The PEER portal is obviously the successor to the earlier Unesco Country Dossiers (see the Internet Archive). [...]

Australia
The ARC makes recommendations to the Minister for Education for the funding of research proposals. This site aims to provide information about the ARC, its research programmes, grant application information, some information on research highlights, research collaboration between Universities and industry and its people. All ARC [...]

Australia
The report has three main purposes. It provides: an overview of the higher education sector in 2001, including new government policies and initiatives; a review of the performance of higher education institutions and information on the allocation of funding for the 2002-2004 triennium. The report, the executive summary, references [...]

Australia
The Institute is a research and information agency established in 1980 to promote the understanding of factors affecting family stability in Australia. The website offers several databases (e.g. "Family - Australian Family and Society Abstracts Database), journal abstracts about family and education, information on research [...]

Australia
NCISA represents the interests of the independent school sector on a national basis. Its eight member state and territory associations of independent schools represent 982 schools. The homepage comprises four main information units: 1. about independent schools ( incl. statistical data) , 2. funding information, 3. information for [...]

Australia; international
VOCED is the UNESCO/NCVER research database for technical and vocational education and training, an international database of research abstracts, in English (produced by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide). The database has extensive coverage of Australian material and includes a [...]

Australia
The website offers access to longitudinal studies and other rural education research activities as well as information on the involved researchers and institutions. Links to related resources are provided. The site seems to be no longer maintained. The information it contains is from 1997-2002.

Australia
The aim of the Curriculum Council of Western Australia is to set curriculum policy directions for kindergarten to year 12 schooling in Western Australia. The website provides information on the curriculum framework, the post compulsory education review report, year 11 and 12 information and information on VET. Position papers and [...]

Australia
This Australian study of children's literacy development traces children' s progress from the year before school through to the fourth year of schooling. It provides detailed case studies on focus children, as well as comparative data on these children in relation to a cohort of children with whom they began school. The research was [...]

Australia
The National Quality Teacher Information Exchange Project is being undertaken from July 2001- June 2003. This is the Commonwealth Quality Teacher Programme national website. The website plays the dual role of providing information and acting as an interactive communication place (news, newsletter, calendar, teacher stories, chat) . [...]

international; Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Andorra; Angola; Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; Armenia; Australia [...]
This page provides a country list with fact sheets on the Human Development Index (HDI). The index focuses on three measurable dimensions of human development: health, education and standard of living. The fact sheets are [...]

Australia
"At a glance: Australia" provides a summary of social issues in this country, including health and education. According to the mission of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - as the leading advocate for children's rights - an analysis of the current situation of young children is given. Statistical data on primary school [...]

Australia
The website of the Department of Education and Training of New South Wales provides information about the department itself, its policies, services and programmes. It also provides access to information on public schools in NSW, TAFE (technical and further education) colleges, training and industry, adult education as well as to [...]

Australia
Steiner Education Australia is the umbrella organisation for Australian Steiner schools (Waldorf schools). The website provides a list of (member) Waldorf schools, information on the teacher education conference, on further education courses for teachers as well as various resources for teachers and parents. [Abstract: Editors of [...]

Australia
The Australian Education Report is integrated into an overarching "Report on Government Services" and can be found in Chapter B "Child care, Education and Training". You can find reports starting in 1995. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Australia
The Australian Education Performance Reporting Dashboard provides statistics and graphs on the achievement of specific targets identified in various so-called agreements. The following agreements are analyzed in terms of their objectives:
* National School Reform Agreement
* National Education Agreement
* National [...]