Realising potential: solving Australia's tertiary education challenge

This report closely examines Australia's tertiary education system, encompassing all post-secondary education and including education and training currently provided by both the higher education and the vocational education and training (VET) sectors. The report focuses particularly on the education and training requirements for entry to the workforce and subsequent upskilling provided by these sectors. While the increases in the level of participation in recent decades represent a significant achievement, there are several challenges confronting the sectors. The report sets the challenge to create an effective education and training system that is both more coherent and more connected. Importantly, it makes a number of recommendations for policy makers including a call for the development of a longer-term vision and policy framework for tertiary education, such as a vision to 2030+, to reset post-secondary education rather than a reliance on short-term reviews of elements of the system.

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