Daily Brief — Australian Education
Monday, 29 June 2026 · 05:11 AEST
The Department of Education released the 2025 Graduate Outcomes Survey, showing a rise in undergraduate full-time employment and growing movement between university and vocational pathways. The survey's findings come as ATEC takes on responsibility for overseeing the Managed Growth Funding System and needs-based funding.
Top of the brief
Clare: 2025 Graduate Outcomes Survey shows 75.4% undergraduate full-time employment and growing VET–university crossover (26 June). The Department of Education released the 2025 Graduate Outcomes Survey on 26 June, after Friday's brief was filed. Undergraduate full-time employment within four to six months of completion rose to 75.4%, up from 74% in 2024. The release also highlighted growing movement between university and vocational pathways, with Clare describing the data as evidence that "the barriers between university and vocational education continue to come down." The GOS figures land one day before ATEC takes on responsibility for overseeing the Managed Growth Funding System and needs-based funding, adding an employment-outcomes baseline against which the new commission's equity mandate will be measured. (Clare, 26 June)
Sector data
Standing figures: 2026 NPL 295,000 (+25,000 on 2025); visa refusal rates 69% Nepal, 42% India (early 2026); domestic commencements 413,133 (+4.3% YoY); $50m over-enrolment fund; $50m Structural Adjustment Fund.
Diary
This week — 1 July — ATEC begins operations under Chief Commissioner Professor Barney Glover AO; $50m Structural Adjustment Fund opens.
17 July — Education Ministers' meeting (early childhood agenda items flagged by Clare).
28–29 July — The PIE Live Asia Pacific 2026, HOTA, Gold Coast.
17–18 November 2026 — TEQSA 2026 Conference, fully virtual.
19 May 2027 — ASQA 12-month VET/ELICOS registration pause expires.