policy

The Academy strongly supports the creation of ATEC as an independent statutory authority with responsibility for stewarding the whole tertiary education system — spanning both universities and vocational education. It recommends strengthening the legislation to enable ATEC to act proactively, gather evidence, and bring systemic issues and opportunities to Ministers rather than being restricted to

Our key message A skills-first system must recognise skills wherever they are developed – through degrees, creative practice, work experience, community leadership, or international qualifications – and give employers and workers a shared language to describe them. “HASS graduates possess skills in critical thinking, ethics, creativity, analysis and the capacity to see the implications of

The Chief Scientist’s consultation showed that Australians want our national spend on research to deliver a cohesive, healthy and resilient society, that is transformation-ready and in tune with our environment. While we would have liked the vision for social and cultural research to be explicit, as it is for science in the National Science Statement,