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Education and Labour

RAND Australia acknowledges the country's challenges in delivering education that impacts employment and economic growth. We provide research and analysis that informs policy and decision-making relating to access to and quality in higher education, workforce development, and innovation in education.

Featured Publications

Understanding and evaluating the impact of dental program accreditation

Jun 30, 2022

Dental program accreditation activities undertaken by the Australian Dental Council influence education providers via directive, anticipatory, strategic, stakeholder, and relational impact mechanisms.

Katherine I. Morley, Jade Yeung, Gemma-Claire Ali, Samiha Alom, Pamina Smith, Carl Rhodes
Learning Creates Australia: Evaluation of the Learner's Journey Social Lab

Mar 30, 2022

In this report, the authors evaluate 'The Learner's Journey', a social lab designed by Learning Creates Australia to explore ways to assess and accredit learning that better reflect the diverse knowledge sets, skills and dispositions of students.

Susan Bush-Mecenas, Jonathan Schweig, V. Darleen Opfer
Assessing Research Impact: An international review of the Excellence in Innovation for Australia Trial

Mar 27, 2013

This report reviews the Excellence in Innovation for Australia Impact Assessment Trial in order to assess how well the universities identified and demonstrated impact, as well as how the process could be improved.

Molly Morgan Jones, Sophie Castle-Clarke, Catriona Manville, Salil Gunashekar, Jonathan Grant