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DEST Annual Report 2001-02
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DEST Annual Report 2001-02
The Secretary's Overview
The Department
Education, Science and Training in Australia
Outcome 1: School Education
Outcome 2: Post School Education and Training
Outcome 3: Research, Innovation and Internationalisation
Outcomes for Science
Management and Accountability
External Scrutiny
People Management
Appendices

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Contents

Chapter 1 – The Secretary’s Overview

Chapter 2 – The department

Section 1 – Introduction
Section 2 – The structure of the department
Section 3 – The department’s Outcomes
Section 4 – Senior executives and their responsibilities
Section 5 – Financial categories

Chapter 3 – Education, science and training in Australia

Section 1 – Introduction
Section 2 – An overview of science in Australia
Section 3 – The education and training system
Section 4 – Effectiveness of the education and training system
Section 5 – Activities that broadly support education and training in Australia

Chapter 4 – Outcome 1: School education

Section 1 – Description
Section 2 – Our strategic priorities
Section 3 – Other activities that broadly support Outcome 1
Section 4 – Summary of the achievements against this Outcome

Chapter 5 – Outcome 2: Post-school education and training

Section 1 – Description
Section 2 – Our strategic priorities
Section 3 – Other activities that broadly support Outcome 2
Section 4 – Summary of the achievements against this Outcome

Chapter 6 – Outcome 3: Research, innovation and internationalisation

Section 1 – Description
Section 2 – Our strategic priorities
Section 3 – Other activities that broadly support Outcome 3
Section 4 – Summary of the achievements against this Outcome

Chapter 7 – Outcomes for science

Section 1 – Introduction
Section 2 – Key initiatives delivered during 2001–02 under Outcome 1
Section 3 – Summary of achievements against Outcome 1
Section 4 – Key initiatives delivered during 2001–02 under Outcome 2
Section 5 Summary of achievements against Outcome 2

Chapter 8 – Management and accountability

Section 1 – Introduction
Section 2 – Corporate governance
Section 3 – Corporate and operational planning, reporting and review
Section 4 – Managing financial and operational risk
Section 5 Ethical standards
Section 6 – Purchasing and asset management
Section 7 – Consultancies and competitive tendering and contracting
Section 8 – Ecologically sustainable development

Chapter 9 – External scrutiny

Section 1 – Introduction
Section 2 – Formal complaints, appeals and other legal matters
Section 3 – Freedom of information
Section 4 – Audit reports
Section 5 Parliamentary scrutiny
Section 6 – Our service charter

Chapter 10 – People management

Section 1 – Workforce planning, staff turnover and retention
Section 2 – Learning and development
Section 3 – Impact and features of Certified Agreement and Australian Workplace Agreements
Section 4 – Occupational Health and Safety
Section 5 Commonwealth Disability Strategy

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Appendix 1 – Staffing statistics

Appendix 2 – Occupational Health and Safety

Appendix 3 – Freedom of information

Section 1 – Decision-making powers
Section 2 – Arrangements for outside participation
Section 3 – Categories of documents produced by the department
Section 4 – Access other than through the Freedom of Information Act 1982

Appendix 4 – Payments to advertising and market research organisations

Appendix 5 – Discretionary grants

Appendix 6 – Higher Education Contribution Scheme

Appendix 7 – Consultancies

Section 1 – Introduction
Section 2 – The department’s policy on the selection of consultants
Section 3 – Summary of consultancies
Section 4 – Key to list of consultancies in 2001–02
Section 5 Details of consultancies let in 2001–02

Appendix 8 – Commonwealth Disability Strategy performance report

Appendix 9 – Performance against Outcomes and Outputs

Appendix 9a – Performance against Outcomes for Science

Appendix 10 – Financial statements

Appendix 11 – Glossary and acronyms

Appendix 12 – Charts and Tables

 

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