Postcompulsory Education Centre (PEC)

The Postcompulsory Education Centre (PEC) was established in January 2005 to provide a University-wide focus for educational research, particularly that related to the area of cross-sectoral and postcompulsory education.

The mission of PEC is to:

• conduct research into aspects of postcompulsory education, with an emphasis on cross-sectoral educational policy and practice;
• support practitioner-led research with the aim of developing the scholarship of learning and teaching across the University;
• coordinate research into postcompulsory education across the University; and
• contribute to the development of University educational policies that are informed by practice-based research.

PEC has an explicitly cross-sectoral focus, with a particular emphasis in the VET-higher education interface. Its research focus is substantially internal, although it will also seek external grants for more wide-ranging studies.