Performance reporting and
accountability for national reform
Skills and workforce development
Skills and workforce development 2010: Comparing performance across Australia
Skills and workforce development 2010: Comparing performance across Australia is the council’s third annual report on the performance of governments under the National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development.
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
Skills and Workforce Development: Key findings 2010 - PDF 147KB | DOC 78KB
Full report - DOC 2MB | PDF 705KB
Statistical supplement - PDF 5.2MB
Report by section:
Skills and Workforce Development: Key findings 2010 - PDF 147KB | DOC 78KB
Chapter 1. About this report - PDF 126KB
Chapter 2. Skill mix for the 21st century labour market - PDF 228KB
Chapter 3. Skills for a changing labour market - PDF 230KB
Chapter 4. Improving reporting - PDF 140KB
Chapter 5. National Partnerships - PDF 166KB
Appendix A. Contextual factors - PDF 126KB
Appendix B. Roles and responsibilities - PDF 100KB
Appendix C. Acronyms and abbreviations - PDF 43KB
Appendix D. References - PDF 67KB
Appendix E. List of figures, boxes and tables - PDF 112KB
Skills and workforce development 2010: Comparing performance across Australia
Skills and workforce development 2010: Comparing performance across Australia is the council’s third annual report on the performance of governments under the National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development.
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.
Full report - DOC 2MB | PDF 705KB
Statistical supplement - PDF 5.2MB
National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development: Performance report for 2009
The National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development: Performance report for 2009 is the council's second report on this National Agreement. This report focuses on governments' progress against the agreed objectives 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 290KB | PDF 204KB
Full report (Volume 1) – DOC 1.26MB | PDF 1.28MB
Volume 2: Performance Data – PDF 1.71MB
Report by section:
Chapter 1: Introduction – PDF 239KB
Chapter 2: Foundation skills – PDF 150KB
Chapter 3: Skill mix for the 21st century labour market – PDF 210KB
Chapter 4: Skills for a changing labour market – PDF 231KB
Chapter 5: Labour market effectiveness – PDF 132KB
Chapter 6: COAG targets – PDF 168KB
Chapter 7: Improvements to the performance reporting framework – PDF 209KB
Chapter 9. Highlighting good practice and performance – PDF 189KB
National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development: Baseline performance report for 2008
This is the council's first report on the National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development. 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 reportcan be found on the COAG website.
The council’s National Education Agreement: Baseline performance report for 2008—released at the same time—is a complementary report, presenting the baseline data for performance against outcomes for the school education sector.
Full Report (Volume 1) - DOC 1.6MB | PDF 741KB
Volume 2, Section 1 - Performance data - DOC 790KB | PDF 660KB
Volume 2, Section 2 - National Agreement performance information 2008 - PDF 2.1MB
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