Department of Education and Training

Victoria, the first Australian state to introduce free education, this year is reaching the milestone of offering public education for 150 years. 

Dozens of Australian Research Council laureate fellows have called the federal government’s research funding “political and shortsighted” after six grants recommended for approval were blocked. Acting education minister Stuart Robert announced the grant decision on Christmas Eve when researchers became aware some of the grants, which an independent peer review process had recommended to receive […]

Representatives from universities and security agencies will band together to form a new foreign-interference taskforce. The taskforce will be comprised 50% from the university sector and 50% from government agencies, providing a perspective of the sector’s unique position partnered with frank advice from our government.

The first Australian Public Service F@#kup Night is being hosted by the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science on July 25. Attendees are promised an afternoon of open and honest stories of the lessons learned from failure, told by three senior executives from the federal government.

Labor is crying foul over their missed opportunities to quiz public servants after Senate estimates was cut short by the beginning of the election campaign period, but they could have voted to keep the hearings going earlier. So, which agencies got a break?

Australia’s best public sector grad programs, indexed. Public sector agencies generally don’t do enough to explain what working in a government department is really like to students.

Education policy in Australia has many emerging issues it must contend with, not least of which is the imminent collision between an ageing population and rapidly changing workplaces driven by technological advancement.

It’s time to think beyond crackdowns. Here’s why analytics is on the money when it comes to negating fraud and abuse of the public purse.

Like last year’s federal budget, the plan for 2018-19 involves re-purposing a range of “efficiencies” found in some parts of the public sector, investing in

The damning report says academic decline is widespread and “equivalent to a generation of Australian school children falling short of their full learning potential”.

The federal government’s Multi-Agency Data Integration Project has gone through an independent privacy impact assessment, and the six big agencies involved have agreed to 14 recommendations for improvement.

There’s a lot of hope that more collaborative ways of developing public policy can vastly improve outcomes but these approaches are nothing without ministerial support. Public trust also requires authenticity, so don’t say it’s co-design if it isn’t.

The brief existence of a former super-department, created solely to accommodate an awkward campaign decision from then opposition leader Kevin Rudd, is so fondly remembered by some of its employees they want to hold a work Christmas function for it — more than four years after its was abolished.

As of last week, WA public servants now have access to 10 days paid domestic and family violence leave. The Mandarin Associate Publisher James Judge looks at the problem of family violence and different government agencies’ responses.