1. The Secretary's review 1999-2000
3. A summary of the Department's roles and the new reporting framework
4. Analysis of performance for Outcome 1
5. Analysis of performance for Outcome 2
6. Analysis of performance for Outcome 3
8. Management and accountability
9. External scrutiny and legal matters affecting the Department
A2. Occupational health and safety
A4. Payments to advertising and market research organisations
A6. Performance against actual results against outcomes and outputs
Glossary and Acronyms
Glossary
Administered Items All those resources administered by the Department on behalf of the Government. They may include transfer payments to the States and Territories, grants and other benefits that contribute to achieving the Government’s specified outcome. The Department does not control Administered Items.
Departmental Outputs Those assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses controlled by the Department and used to provide its goods and services, and therefore outputs to Government
EFTSU The acronym stands for Equivalent Full-Time Student Units. It is a way of quantifying numbers of student places, given that many students study part time. One EFTSU represents a standard annual full-time workload.
IES/PASS This is the management support system for New Apprenticeships Centres which were first established under the new employment market in The Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs. Since the Administrative Arrangements Orders of 21 October 1998 The Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs has continued to manage New Apprenticeships Centres through the systems of The Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business. IES/PASS will be replaced by the Training and Youth Internet Management System (TYIMS) from April 2001.
IES This is the identification of the mainframe application that The Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business (DEWSRB) built to support the operation of the new employment market. Through its 107 different screens, DEWSRB, Centrelink and contracted service providers can store information on jobseekers, employers, vacancies and Contracted Service Providers as well as the interactions that occur between them.
Outcomes - outputs This is the first year The Department is reporting against an outcome - output reporting framework. An outcome is something that the Government wishes to achieve. An output is something The Department does to achieve the outcome.
PASS This was the mainframe application used by Departmental staff to administer labour market programmes. The application was retired on 30 September 1999.
Purchaser/provider The purchaser/provider model of service delivery is becoming more common. Broadly defined, it involves two separate agents. The first is the purchaser who decides what will be produced. The second is the ultimate provider who delivers the agreed outputs. Purchaser/provider type arrangements stand in contrast to the more traditional modes of direct service delivery in the Public Service.
Resources The term, Resources, is normally used to describe funds. There are tables in this Annual Report that show the resources invested in each of the Department’s three Outcomes. That is, they show the funds supplied and expended to achieve each of the outcomes. The term, Human Resources, refers to the Department’s staff.
SAPfihre This IT application is the Department’s financial management and human resource system.
VOCED This is the name of a research database in the National Centre for Vocational Education Research. (VOCED is an abbreviation of Vocational Education.)
A glossary of financial terms appears in Appendix 7.
Acronyms and abbreviations
Use of acronyms and abbreviations has been kept to a minimum in the Annual Report. However, the following are in common use in The Department .
ABSTUDY - Aboriginal Study Assistance Scheme
ACER - Australian Council for Educational Research
AEI - Australian Education International
AEMM - APEC Education Ministers’ Meeting
AEMP - Advanced English for Migrants Programme
AEShareNet - Australian Educational Share Network
AIC - Assistance for Isolated Children
ANAO - Australian National Audit Office
ANR - Annual National Report on schooling in Australia
ANTA - Australian National Training Authority
APA - Australian Postgraduate Award
APAI - Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry)
APEC - Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
AQF - Australian Qualifications Framework
ARC - Australian Research Council
ASTF - Australian Student Traineeship Foundation
ATAS - Aboriginal Tutorial Assistance Scheme
BPA - Business Partnership Arrangement
CRICOS - Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students
DEETYA - Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs
DETYA - Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs
DEWRSB - Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business
DFaCS - Department of Family and Community Services
DIMA - Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
DIS - DETYA International Services
DURIF - DETYA Universal Records and Information Framework
EdNA - Education Network Australia
EFTSU - Equivalent full-time student unit
ELICOS - English Language Intensive Course for Overseas Students
ESL - English as a Second Language
ESL ILSS - English as a Second Language for Indigenous Language Speaking Students
ESOS - Educational Services for Overseas Students
GDP - Gross Domestic Product
GST - Goods and Services Tax
GRG - General Recurrent Grants
HECS - Higher Education Contribution Scheme
HERD - Higher Education Expenditure in Research and Development
HRDWG - Human Resources Development Working Group
ICT - Information and Communications Technology
IDP - Individual Development Process
IEDA - Indigenous Education Direct Assistance
IELTS - International English Language Testing System
IESIP - Indigenous Education Strategic Initiatives Programme
IT&T - Information Technology and Telecommunications
JPET - Job Placement, Employment and Training
JPP - Jobs Pathway Programme
JWG - Joint Working Group
KPIs - Key Performance Indicators
LOTE - Languages Other Than English
LSAY - Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth
MCEETYA - Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs
MEAA - Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance
MINCO - (ANTA) Ministerial Council
MoR - Manager one Removed
MoU - Memorandum of Understanding
NAAP - New Apprenticeships Access Programme
NAC - New Apprenticeships Centre
NAIDOC - National Aboriginal and Islander Day of Celebration
NALSAS - National Asian Languages and Studies in Australian Schools
NASS - New Apprenticeship Support Services
NATSEM - National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling
NCVER - National Centre for Vocational Education Research
NIELNS - National Indigenous Education Literacy and Numeracy Strategy
NSELS - National School English Literacy Survey
NOOSR - National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition
NREC - National Research and Evaluation Committee
NYR - National Youth Roundtable
OECD - Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
OH&S - Occupational Health and Safety
OLDPS - Open Learning Deferred Payment Scheme
PAES - Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements
PBS - Portfolio Budget Statements
PDMS - Parliamentary Document Management System
PISA - Programme for International Student Assessment
PMIP - People Management Improvement Plan
PRC - People’s Republic of China
PS Act - Public Service Act 1999
QAP - Quality Assurance Package
R&D - research and development
RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning
SEAMEO - South East Asian Ministers of Education Organisation
SES - Senior Executive Service
SES - socioeconomic status
SIP - Strategic Intervention Programme
SPIRT - Strategic Partnerships with Industry - Research and Training Scheme
SSAT - Social Security Appeals Tribunal
TAFE - Technical and Further Education
ToEFL - Teaching of English as a Foreign Language
TRG - The Real Game
UMAP - University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific
UNESCO - United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
VEGAS - Vocational and Educational Guidance for Aboriginals Scheme
VET - Vocational Education and Training
WELL - Workplace English Language and Literacy
WPH - Work Place Harassment
WTO - World Trade Organisation
YOPP - Young Offenders Pilot Programme