This report presents an overview of the analyses in respect to the
New Apprenticeship Outcomes Survey Data. This work is intended to provide an exhaustive descriptive analysis of the survey data, to underpin both the Skills at Work Report, ongoing programme monitoring responsibilities and any further work the department or others might undertake.
The Department of Education, Science and Training commissioned this study undertaken by The Allen Consulting Group as a step towards building a greater understanding of how benefits from publicly funded research can be realised and to develop practical metrics by which returns can be assessed.
The two core objectives of this study are to:
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produce a classification/typology of the benefits (ie. impacts) of publicly funded research taking into account international and Australian efforts to date to build such a typology; and
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propose ways of systematically and cost effectively measuring each of the benefits in this typology, taking into account performance monitoring and funding arrangements that impact on these measures.
The report was intended as an analytic paper to inform further consideration and consultation on the above issues, taking into account the Australian Government’s plans to develop quality and accessibility frameworks for publicly funded research and to assess the performance monitoring framework for science and innovation more broadly.
Full copy of publication (released February 2005)
In June 2004, the National Academies Forum hosted a symposium entitled ‘Measuring Excellence in Research and Research Training’. The Proceedings of the Symposium provide an insight into some of key issues that will need to be discussed in the context of developing a Research Quality Framework.