Data opportunities in international education and training

This document prepared for Navitas examines the current state of international education and training (IET) data availability in Australia, its strengths and limitations, and identifies opportunities for improvement in data collection, integration, reporting and availability. The focus of this document is to understand the availability of data to serve one or more of the following three purposes: (1) public policy effectiveness - to inform debate and decision making on public policy settings; (2) market efficiency - to allow efficient allocation of resources from a whole of sector perspective, where all parties have access to the greatest extent of information possible to inform their activities; and (3) operational efficiency - to allow informed decisions at the level of the individual organisation. This work critically examines the current state data availability against a set of seven principles for successful data collection and dissemination: completeness; timeliness; accessibility; consistency; equity; sensitivity to privacy; and the extent to which data is future-proof.

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