Education and Skills
Australia’s trajectory as a modern developed nation depends on a highly skilled, educated and innovative population and workforce. Successive state and federal governments have reiterated this as a key outcome for policies relating to education, training and skills and migration policies. BCEC has a dedicated research program that seeks to further understand the skills and education needed to enhance WA’s economic trajectory and inequities that exist in the current education system that prevent Australians from accessing and achieving all they can.
A number of projects are currently underway at the Centre that focus on the WA education sector including understanding the future international demand for tertiary education in Western Australia and estimating the predictors of apprenticeship completions in WA. At a national level, BCEC researchers are assessing issues such as the efficiency of Australian schools, equal access to education, the labour market return of academic fraud, institutional differences in the earnings of higher education graduates and how socio-economic status influences university outcomes.
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WA Women’s Report Card 2022
Scitech Economic Impact Assessment
Evolution and Future Growth of Stem Skills in the WA Workforce
Housing impacts for Australian children and adolescents; including Indigenous children in remote Australia
Westen Australia’s International Education Sector – Performance and Prospects
Provision of Labour Market Services
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