Performance reporting and
accountability for national reform
Education
Education 2010: Comparing performance across Australia
Education 2010: Comparing performance across Australia is the council’s third annual report on the performance of governments under the National Education Agreement.
With at least three years of data for most indicators, this year’s report focuses on the key outcomes relevant to achieving COAG’s overall objective—reporting change in performance over time.
This report was submitted to COAG on 30 September 2011, and publicly released on 10 November 2011.
Education and Skills 2010: State and Territory snapshots - PDF 2.5MB
Education 2010: Key findings - PDF 133KB | DOC 90KB
Full report - DOC 2.7MB | PDF 1.1MB
Statistical supplement - PDF 8MB
Report by section:
Education 2010: Key findings - PDF 133KB | DOC 90KB
Chapter 1. About this report - PDF 213KB
Chapter 2. Lifting literacy and numeracy achievement - PDF 340KB
Chapter 3. Excelling internationally - PDF 284KB
Chapter 4. Making a successful transition - PDF 250KB
Chapter 5. Reducing educational disadvantage - PDF 308KB
Chapter 6. Improving reporting - PDF 135KB
Chapter 7. National Partnerships - PDF 202KB
Appendix A. Contextual factors - PDF 67KB
Appendix B. Roles and responsibilities - PDF 135KB
Appendix C. Acronyms and abbreviations - PDF 72KB
Appendix D. References - PDF 94KB
Appendix E. List of tables, figures and boxes - PDF 137KB
National Partnership Agreement on Literacy and Numeracy: Performance report for 2010
This is COAG Reform Council's first report on the National Partnership Agreement on Literacy and Numeracy, providing an assessment of achievement against targets agreed between the Commonwealth, and the States and Territories.
This report was submitted to COAG on 25 March 2011, and publicly released on 19 April 2011.
On 28 June 2011, the Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth announced that the Commonwealth would allocate $138 million in reward payments to States and Territories for meeting targets under this National Partnership.
Executive summary - DOC 137 KB | PDF 210KB
Full report - DOC 1 MB | PDF 951KB
Report by section:
Part A - Introduction - PDF 244KB
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. National Partnership on Literacy and Numeracy
Part B - Assessment - PDF 642KB
Chapter 3. Assessment: New South Wales
Chapter 4. Assessment: Victoria
Chapter 5. Assessment: Queensland
Chapter 6. Assessment: Western Australia
Chapter 7. Assessment: South Australia
Chapter 8. Assessment: Tasmania
Chapter 9. Assessment: Australian Capital Territory
Chapter 10. Assessment: Northern Territory
Part C - Improvements to the performance reporting framework - PDF 238KB
Chapter 11. Improvements to the performance reporting framework
Appendix A - Assessment framework for National Partnerships with reward funding - PDF 160KB
Appendix B - Summary of State and Territory reward frameworks - PDF 125KB
Appendix C - References - PDF 84KB
National Education Agreement: Performance report for 2009
The COAG Reform Council's National Education Agreement: Performance report for 2009 is the council's second report on this National Agreement. This report focuses on governments' progress against the agreed objective and outcomes compared to the baseline performance report for 2008.
This report was submitted to COAG on 30 September 2010, and publicly released on 22 October 2010.
COAG publicly responded to this report at its 19 August 2011 meeting. COAG's response can be found on the COAG website.
Executive summary – DOC 366KB | PDF 235KB
Full report (Volume 1) – DOC 1.98MB | PDF 2.18MB
Volume 2: Performance Data – PDF 2.05MB
Report by section:
Chapter 1: Introduction – PDF 294KB
Chapter 2: Engaged and benefiting from schooling – PDF 149KB
Chapter 3: Literacy and Numeracy achievement – PDF 296KB
Chapter 4: Excelling internationally – PDF 175KB
Chapter 5: Educational attainment and transition to work and study – PDF 263KB
Chapter 6: Social inclusion: socio-economic status – PDF 284KB
Chapter 7: Social inclusion: Indigenous young people – PDF 395KB
Chapter 8: COAG targets – PDF 233KB
Chapter 9: Improvements to the performance reporting framework – PDF 250KB
Chapter 10: National Partnerships that support the National Education Agreement – PDF 264KB
Chapter 11: Highlighting good practice and performance – PDF 249KB
Appendix H: Literacy and numeracy achievement in NAPLAN 2009: Analysis of variations among schools and jurisdictions – DOC 939KB | PDF 740KB
National Education Agreement: Baseline performance report for 2008
This is the council's first report on the National Education Agreement. This report was submitted to COAG on 30 September 2009, and publicly released on 5 November 2009.
This report was considered by COAG at its 7 December 2009 meeting. COAG's response to the report can be found on the COAG website.
The council’s National Agreement on Skills and Workforce Development: Baseline performance report for 2008—released at the same time—is a complementary report, presenting the baseline data for performance against outcomes for the vocational education and training sector.
Full report - DOC 2MB | PDF 1MB
Volume 2, Section 1 - Performance data - DOC 457KB | PDF 232KB
Volume 2, Section 2 - National Agreement performance information 2008 - PDF 1MB
Some of the documents on this page have been made available in Portable Document Format (PDF) only. If you need further assistance with alternative formats, please contact the COAG Reform Council on telephone (02) 8229 7377 or by email to coagreformcouncil@pmc.gov.au
