Portfolio: Education
https://www.education.sa.gov.au/
$4.8B
SA 2025-26 Budget$4.8B
2024-25 Total Revenue28,000
Headcount (2024-25)Tertiary Collection of Student Information (TCSI) Renewal Project
Department of Education
Total Budget
$32.4M
Digital Budget
$27.8M
July 2023 — June 2026
The TCSI Renewal Project is an ICT project delivering improved decision-making, service provision, access and security. It will reduce administrative overheads, improve productivity and increase satisfaction of higher education providers and students. The benefits will be delivered through enhancements to analytic capacity, monitoring and service delivery tools, to drive more accurate and timely data collection processes and ensure the security and privacy of data holdings.
Education Funding System (EFS) (Transforming Program Administration for Schools and Higher Education (TPASU)
Department of Education
Total Budget
$88M
Digital Budget
$71M
July 2023 — December 2026
The EFS project is a significant initiative by the department to modernise and streamline the management of education funding across Australia, to improve the administration of $46 billion in annual funding allocated to Australian schools and higher education institutions. At the time of preparing this report, this project is subject to the escalation protocols set out in the Assurance Framework for Digital and ICT Investments. These protocols are designed to support agencies in the timely resolution of delivery challenges.
Child Care Subsidy (CCS) - Automation and Streamlining of Gap Fee Compliance
Department of Education
Total Budget
$7.5M
Digital Budget
$7.5M
July 2024 — June 2026
The CCS – Automation and Streamlining of Gap Fee Compliance project aims to enhance CCS program integrity and efficiency by automating and streamlining gap fee compliance activities. This project is part of broader efforts from 2022–23 to 2024–25 to prevent fraud and ensure compliance, delivering significant savings over 6 years. The project enhances the financial support through the CCS, benefiting Australian families and children.
Schools Unique Student Identifier (USI)
Department of Education
Total Budget
$NFPM
Digital Budget
$NFPM
January 2019 — December 2027
The Schools USI project is a national enabling initiative in the Better and Fairer Schools Agreement 2025–2034 (BFSA). The initiative expands the national USI system operating currently in the vocational education and training (VET) and higher education sectors to the school education sector. Once fully implemented, a unique number will be assigned to all primary and secondary school students in Australia, including students in alternative schooling arrangements such as homeschooling. This unique national number will be able to travel with a student throughout their school years and into VET and higher education. Implementation of the Schools USI national enabling initiative will continue in 2026 consistent with the BFSA schedule, with all school students to receive a USI by the end of 2027.
12 tagged
Reform proposals on YourGov that name this department as a delivery partner — drawn from citizen voice, government strategy, research, international examples and gap analysis.
STRATEGY SUMMARY
Everyone involved in children and young person’s learning has access to music education activities that understand the value of music education.
VISION
“Throughout their education, all children and young people in South Australia have access to high-quality music education that is valued and inspires learning.”
Music Education Strategy 2019 to 2029 (PDF 1.3MB) 2019 · p.4PURPOSE
Everyone involved in children and young person’s learning has access to music education activities that understand the value of music education.
Music Education Strategy 2019 to 2029 (PDF 1.3MB) 2019Strategic priorities
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Enhance existing systems and build system capacity to better support general classroom music education.
Music Education Strategy 2019 to 2029 (PDF 1.3MB) 2019 · p.16Upskill non-specialist teachers and educators to improve the delivery of music education for early years and primary tea
Upskill non-specialist teachers and educators to improve the delivery of music education for early years and primary teachers.
Music Education Strategy 2019 to 2029 (PDF 1.3MB) 2019 · p.16Provide tailored and targeted curriculum resources.
Music Education Strategy 2019 to 2029 (PDF 1.3MB) 2019 · p.16Outcomes
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Outcome 1: Music education for all
Children and young people engage with music education in preschool, remain engaged through primary school, and can choose to pursue music education in secondary school and beyond.
KEY ACTIVITIES
Values
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Value Connections
Continuum Achievement
Performance measures
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| Code | Measure | Target 2025-26 | Latest result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
MUS01 | Percentage of primary schools with a music education curriculum and pedagogy resource | 100% Music Education Strategy 2019 to 2029 (PDF 1.3MB) 2019 · p.20 | 90% Annual Report 2024 · p.20 | Partially achieved |
MUS02 | Percentage of students engaged in music education programs | Increase by 10% Music Education Strategy 2019 to 2029 (PDF 1.3MB) 2019 · p.20 | 85% Annual Report 2024 · p.20 | Partially achieved |
Source documents
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primary student digital device policy (PDF 585 KB)
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secondary student digital device policy (PDF 567 KB)
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2019
Music Education Strategy 2019 to 2029 (PDF 1.3MB)
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strategy's key initiatives and what they mean for South Australia and for our stakeholders (PDF 448KB)
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Quality Music Education Framework (PDF 2 MB)
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information poster (PDF 238KB)
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Wellbeing for Learning and Life framework (PDF 406KB)
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Children’s voices
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Download the parent engagement framework (PDF 1.43MB)
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Download the parent engagement in learning strategy (PDF 1.77MB)
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2018
Public Health Indicator Framework (PDF 281KB)
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regional public health planning: using AEDC data guide (PDF 484 KB)
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2024
Annual Report
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Ideas distilled from this entity's strategy & evidence
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KPI evidence register with named owners
Create a simple register mapping each KPI to source data, owner, frequency, target, and last result.
SAPublicHealthIndicatorsFramework+2018v3.pdf?MOD=AJPERES)
Outcome dashboard linking budget, delivery, and public impact
Build a public-facing outcome dashboard showing spend, outputs, outcomes, and delivery confidence.
SAPublicHealthIndicatorsFramework+2018v3.pdf?MOD=AJPERES)
Regulatory burden scan for forms, guidance, and reporting
Identify the top 10 highest-friction reporting obligations and simplify guidance, forms, or evidence requirements.
procurement-governance-policy.pdf)
Adaptive regulation program with live feedback loops
Create an adaptive regulation model using sandboxes, industry data, risk scoring, and regular rule updates.
procurement-governance-policy.pdf)
Plain-language service pages and proactive status updates
Rewrite high-volume pages and letters into plain language, add status notifications, and measure contact reduction.
secondary-student-digital-device-policy.pdf)
Single front door for life-event based services
Bundle services around life events so citizens can complete related steps across agencies in one journey.
secondary-student-digital-device-policy.pdf)
Reusable briefing and summary assistant for internal documents
Create controlled templates for summarising reports, submissions, minutes, and ministerial briefs.
primary-student-digital-device-policy.pdf)
Department-wide knowledge and briefing platform
Build a secure knowledge platform that lets staff search, summarise, and cite approved departmental material.
primary-student-digital-device-policy.pdf)
Consultation feedback summaries with response tracking
Summarise consultation submissions by theme and publish what changed in response.
childrens-voices-framework.pdf)
Always-on policy participation platform
Create a standing participation platform where citizens and stakeholders can propose, vote, and track ideas.
childrens-voices-framework.pdf)
Procurement lessons library for repeat purchases
Capture reusable procurement clauses, market lessons, supplier performance notes, and common evaluation criteria.
procurement-governance-policy.pdf)
Portfolio delivery office for major investments
Stand up a portfolio delivery office that tracks benefits, risks, dependencies, procurement, and delivery confidence.
procurement-governance-policy.pdf)
KPI evidence register with named owners
Create a simple register mapping each KPI to source data, owner, frequency, target, and last result.
SAPublicHealthIndicatorsFramework+2018v3.pdf?MOD=AJPERES)
Outcome dashboard linking budget, delivery, and public impact
Build a public-facing outcome dashboard showing spend, outputs, outcomes, and delivery confidence.
SAPublicHealthIndicatorsFramework+2018v3.pdf?MOD=AJPERES)
Regulatory burden scan for forms, guidance, and reporting
Identify the top 10 highest-friction reporting obligations and simplify guidance, forms, or evidence requirements.
procurement-governance-policy.pdf)
Adaptive regulation program with live feedback loops
Create an adaptive regulation model using sandboxes, industry data, risk scoring, and regular rule updates.
procurement-governance-policy.pdf)
Plain-language service pages and proactive status updates
Rewrite high-volume pages and letters into plain language, add status notifications, and measure contact reduction.
secondary-student-digital-device-policy.pdf)
Single front door for life-event based services
Bundle services around life events so citizens can complete related steps across agencies in one journey.
secondary-student-digital-device-policy.pdf)
Reusable briefing and summary assistant for internal documents
Create controlled templates for summarising reports, submissions, minutes, and ministerial briefs.
primary-student-digital-device-policy.pdf)
Department-wide knowledge and briefing platform
Build a secure knowledge platform that lets staff search, summarise, and cite approved departmental material.
primary-student-digital-device-policy.pdf)
Consultation feedback summaries with response tracking
Summarise consultation submissions by theme and publish what changed in response.
childrens-voices-framework.pdf)
Always-on policy participation platform
Create a standing participation platform where citizens and stakeholders can propose, vote, and track ideas.
childrens-voices-framework.pdf)
Procurement lessons library for repeat purchases
Capture reusable procurement clauses, market lessons, supplier performance notes, and common evaluation criteria.
procurement-governance-policy.pdf)
Portfolio delivery office for major investments
Stand up a portfolio delivery office that tracks benefits, risks, dependencies, procurement, and delivery confidence.
procurement-governance-policy.pdf)
Source library
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855KB
2024.pdf
677KB
procurement-governance-policy.pdf
1.0MB
school-res-notes-2025.pdf
1.0MB
school-res-notes-2024.pdf
935KB
school-res-notes-2023.pdf
735KB
preschool-res-notes-2025.pdf
600KB
primary-student-digital-device-policy.pdf
581KB
secondary-student-digital-device-policy.pdf
1.3MB
2019-2029-music-education-strategy.pdf
458KB
key-initiative-music-education-strategy.pdf
2.8MB
quality-music-education-framework.pdf
244KB
quality-music-education-framework-promotional-poster.pdf