Instruction in Australia is fundamentally the obligation of the states and domains. Every state or domain government gives financing and controls the general population and tuition based schools inside of its administering territory. The government finances the state funded colleges, however was not included in setting college curriculum.[8] As of 2012, the Australian National Curriculum,[9] being worked on and trial for quite a while, has as of now been embraced by a few schools and will get to be obligatory soon. For the most part, instruction in Australia takes after the three-level model which incorporates essential instruction (elementary schools), trailed by optional instruction (auxiliary schools/secondary schools) and tertiary instruction (Universities, TAFE universities and Vocation Education and Training suppliers/VET suppliers).

The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2006 assessment positioned the Australian training framework as 6th for perusing, eighth for science and thirteenth for arithmetic, on an overall scale including 56 countries.[10] The PISA 2009 assessment positioned the Australian instruction framework as 6th for perusing, seventh for science and ninth for science