Key Competencies: Report of the Committee to advise the Australian Education Council and Ministers of Vocational Education, Employment and Training on Employment-related Key Competencies for Postcompulsory Education and Training (Mayer report)

This is the final and full Mayer report (see also the condensed version ‘Putting general education to work’, indexed at TD/TNC 32.84). The committee, chaired by Eric Mayer, was set up by the Australian Education Council (AEC) and Ministers of Vocational Education, Employment and Training (MOVEET) to develop the key competencies concept recommended in the Finn Report (indexed at TD/LMR 85.641). The report proposes a set of seven key competencies that young people need, to be able to participate effectively in the emerging forms of work and work organisation, together with principles to provide for nationally consistent assessment and reporting of achievement of the key competencies. It also identifies the steps needed to implement the Committee’s proposal. The seven key competencies are: Collecting, analysing and organising information; Communicating ideas and information; Planning and organising activities; Working with others and in teams; Using mathematical ideas and techniques; Solving problems; Using technology.