Department of Education
Department of Education
Education portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 4,053
- Contract value (all years): 1,879,420,453 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 186,254,823 AUD
- APS headcount: 1,799
- Budget 2026-27: 69,512,888 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 1,002,888 AUD
- Directory roles: 97
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (40)
- 2026-08-07 — IBAC controversy sees Vic Education secretary stand aside
- 2026-07-19 — Education ministers to ‘explore’ national childcare commission
- 2026-05-07 — ANAO whacks Education over Commonwealth grant rule violations
- 2026-03-03 — Education-agent commission ban won’t curb course hopping. Here’s what will
- 2026-02-23 — Education Department to oversee ‘commonsense actions’ in higher ed regulatory reform
- 2026-02-12 — NSW Education changes employee code of conduct to ban hate speech
- 2025-12-02 — Tony Cook: Department of Education secretary
- 2025-10-08 — Activists who want to dismantle public schools now run US Education
- 2025-09-30 — Department of Education commits to capability uplift
- 2025-08-25 — Tony Bates appointed Vic Education secretary
- 2025-08-13 — Education excellence horizon pinpoints three priorities
- 2025-07-25 — Review spotlights capability needs for federal Education Department
- 2025-07-15 — Court allows mass job cuts at US Education Department
- 2025-07-01 — Australian Tertiary Education Commission opens its doors
- 2025-06-16 — Union hits back at allegation of oxygen theft by Education NSW
- 2025-03-20 — Trump signs order to dismantle Department of Education
- 2025-03-20 — Trump to sign Department of Education shutdown order
- 2025-02-18 — Education leadership renewal coming
- 2025-02-10 — The future of the US Department of Education under Trump’s second term
- 2024-12-09 — NSW Education moves to redefine flexible work conditions
- 2024-11-18 — Tony Cook: Education
- 2024-09-18 — Trip to Industrial Relations Commission spurs NSW Education to engage with employees, unions
- 2024-09-16 — NSW Education rolls out bespoke AI to help teachers
- 2024-09-10 — Dispute erupts over further retrenchments at NSW Education on top of $1.4 billion cuts
- 2024-02-28 — Secretary talks next steps for proposed Tertiary Education Commission
- 2023-11-05 — Tony Cook: Education
- 2023-11-05 — Michele Bruniges: formerly Education
- 2023-10-15 — NSW Education employees with highest rates of burnout in state’s public sector
- 2023-09-15 — NSW Budget 2023: Cutting bureaucratic waste in Education Department will save $1.4 billion, says minister
- 2023-08-10 — NSW Education pinged by auditor for poor rural student performance
- 2023-07-28 — Education jobs cut as Victoria tightens purse strings
- 2023-07-26 — NSW Education staff to spend a week in schools as part of induction
- 2023-07-18 — Education department to lead process pinpointing places for new uni study hubs
- 2023-06-22 — Former Education boss Michele Bruniges to lead NSW TAFE revival
- 2023-06-08 — Movers & Shakers: Education secretaries appointments
- 2023-05-03 — eBook: Australian Education and Healthcare Industry Trends in 2023
- 2023-04-27 — Movers & Shakers: New dep secs at DEWR and Education
- 2023-04-26 — NSW Education starts audit to reduce teacher admin by five hours a week
- 2023-04-14 — Minns culls Treasury, Transport and Education chiefs in public sector purge
- 2023-04-11 — Education challenges identified by OECD will be addressed, says Clare
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-08-27 — Victorian Transport and Planning secretary suddenly departs
- 2026-08-26 — Rare, practical guide for public servants partnering with academics
- 2026-08-26 — Universities Australia backs government funding transition
- 2026-08-25 — Advice for Victorian Treasury on government spending
- 2026-08-24 — Opposition calls for senior decision-makers to be held to account over Bondi
- 2026-08-16 — Why NAPLAN still measures the important capabilities for learning in Australia
- 2026-08-14 — Auditor expresses concern about underreporting of NSW consulting costs
- 2026-08-13 — Movers & Shakers: Retirements and departures aplenty
- 2026-08-11 — Australian campaign aims to raise awareness about insidious bullying
- 2026-08-11 — NAPLAN at a crossroads: Measuring learning or measuring the same problems?
Names over time
What each source called this agency, and in which years. Taken from the sources themselves, not from a register of establishment dates — those are not published.
| Reported as | Source | Years | Rows |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education ⚠️ | APSC APS Employment Data | 2013-14 to 2025-26 | 1,214 |
| Education ⚠️ | APSC agency metrics | 2013-14 to 2025-26 | 125 |
| Education and Training ⚠️ | APSC APS Employment Data | 2014-15 to 2017-18 | 1,020 |
| Education and Training ⚠️ | APSC agency metrics | 2014-15 to 2018-19 | 40 |
| Department of Education | Annual report KMP disclosure | 2018-19 to 2024-25 | 42 |
| Department of Education | AusTender (names as at today, not as at the contract) | 2019-20 to 2026-27 | 4,053 |
| Department of Education Skills and Employment ⚠️ | Annual report KMP disclosure | 2019-20 to 2020-21 | 18 |
| Department of Education, Skills and Employment ⚠️ | Annual report KMP disclosure | 2019-20 | 14 |
| Education, Skills and Employment ⚠️ | APSC APS Employment Data | 2019-20 to 2021-22 | 600 |
| Education, Skills and Employment ** ⚠️ | APSC APS Employment Data | 2019-20 to 2020-21 | 4 |
| Education, Skills and Employment ** ⚠️ | APSC agency metrics | 2019-20 to 2020-21 | 26 |
| Department of Education, Skills and Employment ⚠️ | Annual report expenditure | 2020-21 | 9 |
| Education, Skills and Employment ⚠️ | APSC agency metrics | 2020-21 to 2021-22 | 39 |
| Department of Education | Annual report expenditure | 2021-22 to 2024-25 | 21 |
| Department of Education | Annual report governance tables | 2022-23 to 2024-25 | 14 |
| Department of Education [i] ⚠️ | Annual report KMP disclosure | 2022-23 to 2023-24 | 14 |
| Department of Education | Portfolio Budget Statements | 2024-25 to 2029-30 | 205 |
⚠️ This agency has not always carried its current name. Figures in the earlier years were reported as Department of Education Skills and Employment (2019-20 to 2020-21); Department of Education [i] (2022-23 to 2023-24); Department of Education, Skills and Employment (2019-20 to 2020-21); Education (2013-14 to 2025-26); Education and Training (2014-15 to 2018-19); Education, Skills and Employment (2019-20 to 2021-22); **Education, Skills and Employment **** (2019-20 to 2020-21). They are shown here because the series is continuous, not because the agency is.
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Non-consultancy contracts | 14 | $164,882,857 |
| Consultancy | 16 | $17,477,968 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| MTC Work Solutions | — | $31,976,391 | 2021-22 |
| MTC Work Solutions (26 046 112 702) | — | $24,362,301 | 2020-21 |
| Hitachi Vantara Australia Pty Ltd | 65005610079 | $20,467,501 | 2020-21 |
| TAFE Queensland (72 898 805 093) | — | $17,795,597 | 2020-21 |
| Queensland Tertiary Admissions | — | $14,708,089 | 2021-22 |
| The Social Research Centre (91 096 153 212) | — | $14,572,599 | 2020-21 |
| DXC Australia Pty Limited | — | $14,273,234 | 2021-22 |
| Hays Personnel Services | — | $13,460,732 | 2021-22 |
| Bendigo Kangan Institute | — | $13,184,553 | 2021-22 |
| The Boston Consulting Group Pty Ltd | — | $4,198,093 | 2021-22 |
| Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu | — | $2,450,808 | 2021-22 |
| Parkville Institute Ltd | — | $2,073,500 | 2021-22 |
From the expenditure disclosures in each annual report — a separate source from the AusTender contract figures above, and not directly comparable with them.
Workforce profile — as at 2025-12-31
| Measure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| % CALD | 23.0% | at this date |
| % Female | 69.1% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 3.1% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 50.7% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 2.6% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 14.4% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 40.1% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 76.2% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 6.8% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 12.2% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 1,799 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 40.9 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 8.9 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 6.6% | at this date |
APSC APS Employment Data, counting this agency including any bodies beneath it. Headcount, not FTE — the APSED release does not publish FTE.
Bodies beneath this agency — as at 2025-12-31
Australian Research Council · Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency
From the APSC sub-agency breakdown. A body listed here is counted inside the workforce profile above, so do not add the two.
Year by year
| Measure | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APS headcount | 1,869 | 1,669 | 2,086 | 2,083 | 1,937 | 1,902 | 3,573 | 3,767 | 4,113 | 4,113 | 1,680 | 1,835 | 1,799 | |
| SES | 93 | 90 | 100 | 23 | 28 | 49 | 50 | 22 | 18 | 23 | 22 | |||
| Contracts | 1,008 | 914 | 742 | 371 | 424 | 295 | 260 | 39 | ||||||
| Contract value | $402,467,363 | $276,852,770 | $261,271,744 | $153,458,521 | $296,109,419 | $199,119,195 | $272,343,844 | $17,797,598 | ||||||
| Budget ($000) | 51,313,547 | 69,512,888 | ||||||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 18 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||
| Top total pay | $825,023 | $968,871 | $900,722 | $730,325 | $962,959 | $1,002,888 |
An empty cell means no publishable row for that year — unknown, not nil. Never read a blank as a fall to zero. ⚠️ This agency has not always carried its current name. Figures in the earlier years were reported as Department of Education Skills and Employment (2019-20 to 2020-21); Department of Education [i] (2022-23 to 2023-24); Department of Education, Skills and Employment (2019-20 to 2020-21); Education (2013-14 to 2025-26); Education and Training (2014-15 to 2018-19); Education, Skills and Employment (2019-20 to 2021-22); **Education, Skills and Employment **** (2019-20 to 2020-21). They are shown here because the series is continuous, not because the agency is.
Sources — annual reports
Each link opens transparency.gov.au — the published source the figures were read from. The label names the table to look for.
° The portal does not publish a path for this report, so the link opens the agency's reports on transparency.gov.au rather than that year directly. Pick the year from there.
