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Education Policy Reforms to Boost Productivity in Australia
Author(s) -
Foster Gigi
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8462.12271
Subject(s) - productivity , commonwealth , public administration , work (physics) , commission , political science , set (abstract data type) , education policy , public economics , economics , economic growth , higher education , engineering , law , computer science , mechanical engineering , programming language
Chapter 3 of the 2017 Australian Productivity Commission's recent report ‘ Shifting the dial ’, commissioned by the Commonwealth Treasurer to interrogate ‘Australia's productivity performance’, focuses on education policy. The Treasurer explicitly asks that the report include ‘recommendations on productivity‐enhancing reform’, and Chapter 3, entitled ‘Future Skills and Work’, delivers these for the education policy sphere. In this article I evaluate the education policy reform recommendations set out in Chapter 3 against Australia's educational performance and landscape today, and what we know in general about the educational inputs to productivity. Different, though overlapping, policy recommendations emerge from my analysis.