This is a cross-faculty and cross-institutional centre. The centre's main purpose is research in the economics of education in Australia. The centre was established because of the need for more coherent and sustained research in the field.
The centre formalises links between researchers in different departments at Monash and at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). To encourage collaboration across the institutions involved, the centre is managed by four co-directors: Associate Professor Gerald Burke, School of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Education; Dr Phillip McKenzie, principal research fellow, ACER; Dr Leo Maglen, senior lecturer, Department of Economics; Professor Chris Selby Smith, Graduate School of Management.