Education
Department of Education
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tertiary Collection of Student Information (TCSI) Renewal Project | Not reported | Medium-High | Active | 31.6 | 27.8 | 30 Jun 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. |
| Project name | DCA 2024 | DCA 2025 | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education Funding System (formerly known as Transforming Program for Schools and Universities) | Medium-High | Medium-Low | Active | 91.7 | 71.1 | 30 Jun 2026 | The Education Funding System (EFS) project is a significant initiative undertaken by the Australian Government Department of Education. The primary goal of the EFS project is to modernise and streamline the management of education funding across Australia; to improve the administration of $46 billion in annual funding allocated to Australian schools and higher education institutions. |
| Project name | Delivery status | Total budget ($ million) | Digital budget ($ million) | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Child Care Subsidy (CCS) Reform – Streamline and Automation of Gap Fee Compliance | Active | 88.2 | 7.5 | 30 Jun 2025 | The Child Care Subsidy (CCS) Reform 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 over6 years. The project enhances the financial support through the CCS, benefiting Australian families and children. |
| Plan for Cheaper Child Care | Closed | 3.1 | 3.1 | 30 Jun 2024 | New data infrastructure replaced the existing child care data warehouse, analytics and reporting processes with a robust end-to-end solution that will also deliver benefits for the department’s data analytics, compliance monitoring, integrity and fraud detection activities. |
| Schools Unique Student Identifier (USI) | Active | NFP | NFP | 31 Dec 2027 | The schools USI is a joint initiative between the Commonwealth and the states and territories under the Better and Fairer Schools Agreement 2025–2034 which has superseded the National School Reform Agreement 2019–2024. This initiative is extending the national USI system to the school sector. Implementation will continue in 2025, with all school students to have a USI by the end of 2027. |
Disclaimer
Certain numbers in this report have been rounded to one decimal place. Due to rounding, some totals may not correspond with the sum of the separate figures.