Dollar per secondary school student per financial year Victorian Government real recurrent $ per 15,523.0 15,571.7 16,130.6 n/a n/a expenditure (including User Cost of FTE Capital) per FTE student in secondary student schools (2014–15 dollars) Higher education and skills Dollar per VET student contact hour per calendar year Victorian Government real recurrent $ per 13.21 11.96 9.84 10.76 n/a expenditure per annual hour (2015 hour dollars) Performance against output performance measures The Department’s outputs are reported in seven groups. These are: Strategy, Review and Regulation Early Childhood Development School Education–Primary School Education–Secondary Training, Higher Education, Workforce Development and Skills Support Services Development Support for Students with Disabilities. output measures refer to the financial year unless indicated. Strategy, review and regulation The output for Strategy, Review and Regulation develops, plans and monitors strategic policy settings across all stages of learning. It includes intergovernmental negotiations as well as research, data and performance evaluations. This output group supports regulation to ensure delivery of quality education and training and contributes to all the Department’s objectives of achievement, engagement, wellbeing and productivity. 7 Strategy, review and regulation performance measures – Performance measures Unit of 2016–17 2016–17 Per cent Result measure Target Actual variation Quantity Number of registered training organisation quality number 67 90 34.3 audits and school reviews undertaken annually This performance measure relates to the calendar year. The 2016–17 actual is higher than the target due to unanticipated audits and reviews of potentially high-risk providers. This resulted from potential non-compliance identified by complaints and other intelligence, and increased demand for high-risk thematic areas such as childcare qualifications. Quality Education peak bodies that rate the Victorian per cent 70 100 42.9 Registration and Qualifications Authority (VRQA) effective or highly effective in performing its regulatory function
Dollar per secondary school student per financial year Victorian Government real recurrent expenditure (including User Cost of Capital) per FTE student in secondary schools (2014–15 dollars) $ per FTE student 15,523.0 15,571.7 16,130.6 n/a n/a Higher education and skills Dollar per VET student contact hour per calendar year Victorian Government real recurrent expenditure per annual hour (2015 dollars) $ per hour 13.21 11.96 9.84 10.76 n/a Performance against output performance measures The Department’s outputs are reported in seven groups. These are: Strategy, Review and Regulation Early Childhood Development School Education–Primary School Education–Secondary Training, Higher Education, Workforce Development and Skills Support Services Development Support for Students with Disabilities. output measures refer to the financial year unless indicated. Strategy, review and regulation The output for Strategy, Review and Regulation develops, plans and monitors strategic policy settings across all stages of learning. It includes intergovernmental negotiations as well as research, data and performance evaluations. This output group supports regulation to ensure delivery of quality education and training and contributes to all the Department’s objectives of achievement, engagement, wellbeing and productivity. 7 – Strategy, review and regulation performance measures Performance measures Unit of measure 2016–17 Target 2016–17 Actual Per cent variation Result Quantity Number of registered training organisation quality audits and school reviews undertaken annually number 67 90 34.3 This performance measure relates to the calendar year. The 2016–17 actual is higher than the target due to unanticipated audits and reviews of potentially high-risk providers. This resulted from potential non-compliance identified by complaints and other intelligence, and increased demand for high-risk thematic areas such as childcare qualifications. Quality Education peak bodies that rate the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority (VRQA) effective or highly effective in performing its regulatory function per cent 70 100 42.9
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