Governance Characteristics
Annual Report Requirements
Corporate Plan Requirements
Current Budget Characteristics
Outcome #1: Improved quality and consistency of school education in Australia through a national curriculum, national assessment, data collection, and performance reporting system.
# | Program | Body | Contribution |
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1.1 | Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority Program 1.1 | Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority | The program aims to improve the quality, equity, and transparency of Australia's education system. A national curriculum ensures that every child in Australia, regardless of where they live or the school they attend, has access to a world-class curriculum. |
1.2 | Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority Program 1.2 | Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority | The program aims to provide school education leaders, teachers, and parents with the means to periodically assess students against previous performance, national benchmarks and their peers using an objective measure |
1.3 | Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority Program 1.3 | Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority | National Data and Reporting The program aims to provide public reporting to promote accountability and engagement in school education. Provision of quality information on schooling is important for schools and their students, for parents and their families and for the community and governments |
1.4 | Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority Program 1.4 | Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority | The program aims to ensure ACARA works in a transparent and collaborative manner with Commonwealth/state/territory departments of education and government and, non-government school authorities. ACARA will share its proposals and work with a range of advisory groups to enable all stakeholders to provide input |