Department of Employment, Education and Training

1. Department of Employment, Education and Training1987–1996
2. Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs1996–1998

Created by the Administrative Arrangements Order of 24 July 1987 under the third Hawke government, merging the Department of Education with the employment and training functions of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations. John Dawkins was Minister for Employment, Education and Training. On 1 July 1988 it absorbed the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission and the Commonwealth Schools Commission under the Employment, Education and Training Act 1988.

On 11 March 1996, under the incoming Howard government, it became the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs.

• Commonwealth Employment Service and labour market programs
• Schools funding and policy
• Higher education and the Unified National System
• Vocational education and training
• Student assistance (AUSTUDY and ABSTUDY)
• Aboriginal education and employment programs
• Youth affairs
• Overseas students

• Australian Research Grants Committee 1965–1988
• Canberra School of Music 1965–1988
• Canberra College of Advanced Education 1967–1990
• Canberra School of Art 1976–1988
• Commonwealth Schools Commission 1981–1988
• Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission 1981–1988
• Canberra Institute of the Arts 1988–1992

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