2027 Report on Government Services - Vocational Education and Training Data manual FOI disclosure 2026/6 (PDF - 3.5 MB)

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The release is the July 2026 Vocational Education and Training data manual for the 2027 Report on Government Services, published by the Productivity Commission as an FOI disclosure. It is a technical reference rather than inquiry material: it sets counting rules, definitions and input codes for VET expenditure, provider activity, the Student Outcomes Survey, the employer survey, ABS data, service quality indicators and the VET National Data Asset. Its general due date for data is 22 September 2026. The excerpts describe a 2024 revision that limited recurrent expenditure to VET delivery funding and system administration, and that dropped a non-TAFE payments indicator in favour of a proportion of total VET delivery funding. The excerpts contain no draft recommendations, modelling assumptions with quantified impacts, stakeholder submissions or correspondence, and no differences between draft and final positions are disclosed.