Dr Phillip McKenzie is the Research Director of the Transitions and Post-School
Education and Training research program at ACER, Acting research Director of the Teaching
and Leadership Program at ACER and a Director of the Monash University-ACER Centre for
the Economics of Education and Training (CEET). 

He commenced his career in education as a secondary school teacher before being awarded a
fellowship for post-graduate studies in the economics of education at Monash University.
His MEd thesis was on the efficiency and equity implications of recurrent education, and
his PhD analysed the economics of secondary school size. At ACER and CEET, he has worked
on a wide variety of commissioned research projects on the costs, financing and labour
market outcomes of education and training, and education policy issues. 

From 1984 to 1989, Dr McKenzie was Editor of the Australian Education Review series, and
in 1991-92, was Executive Officer of the Strategic Review of Research in Education. He
was a member of the Prime Minister’s Youth Pathways Action Plan Taskforce in 1999 and
2000. 

From 1996 to 1998, and from 2002 to 2004, he was seconded to the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, where he held the position of
Principal Administrator in the Education and Training Policy Division. At the OECD, Dr
McKenzie worked on major multi-country studies concerned with the Transition from Initial
Education to Working Life (1996-98) and Attracting, Developing and Retaining Effective
Teachers (2002-04). In 2002 and 2003 he was Editor of the OECD’s annual Education Policy
Analysis series. 

Articles (Refereed)

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International developments in vocational pathways : 10 lessons for Australia, Vocal : the Australian Journal of Vocational Education and Training in Schools (2001)
 

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School governance : research on educational and management issues (with John Ainley), International Education Journal (2000)
 
Scale economies in Australian secondary schools, Australian Journal of Education (1995)
 
Rethinking secondary school size, Education Alternatives (1992)
 

Books

The On Track Survey 2008: the destinations of school leavers in Victoria (with Sheldon Rothman, Kylie Hillman, and Gary Marks) (2009)
 

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Teachers matter : Attracting, Developing and Retaining Effective Teachers (with P Santiago, P Sliwka, and H Hiroyuki) (2005)
 

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CEET's stocktake: the economics of vocational education and training in Australia (with Chris Selby Smith, Fran Ferrier, Damon Anderson, Gerald Burke, Sonnie Hopkins, Michael Long, Leo Maglen, Jeff Malley, and Chandra Shah) (2001)
 

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Curriculum provision in rural secondary schools (with Ross Harrold and Andrew Sturman) (1996)
 
Past imperfect: future imperative: a guide to recent Australian literature on the economics of vocational education and training (with Fran Ferrier, Gerald Burke, Chris Selby Smith, Joy Selby Smith, and Damon Anderson) (1994)
 

Contributions to Books

The teaching workforce: meeting aspirations and enhancing motivation (with Paulo Santiago), OECD Evaluation Policy Analysis 2005-2006 (2006)
 

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Pathways for youth in Australia, Vocational training and lifelong learning in Australia and Germany (2002)
 

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Mapping educational research and its impact on Australian schools (with John Ainley, Allyson Holbrook, Sid Bourke, John Owen, Sebastian Misson, and Trevor Johnson), The impact of educational research (2000)
 
The resource implications of VET in schools (with Gerald Burke and Chandra Shah), School resourcing : models and practices in changing times (2000)
 

Articles

The economic crisis and international education, Directions in Education (2009)
 

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Leadership : is there a looming shortage?, Professional Educator (2008)
 

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Staff in Australia's Schools, Research Developments (2008)
 

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Opening pathways from education to work (with Marianne Durand-Drouhin and Richard Sweet), The OECD Observer (1998)
 
Lifelong learning and employability (with Gregory Wurzburg), The OECD Observer (1997)
 

Unpublished Papers

The recurrent education debate an economic perspective, MEd -- Monash University (1981)
 

Conference Papers and Presentations

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The destinations of Victorian school leavers: key findings from the On Track Project (with Trish Corrie), Annual Conference of the Career Development Association of Australia (2009)
 

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Key international developments affecting Australian education and training, Monash University-ACER Centre for the Economics of Education and Training Annual Conference (2008)
 

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Economics of quality schooling (with Gerald Burke), UQSE 2007: International Conference on Universal Quality School Education Challenge of the 21st Century (2007)
 

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Schooling and youth participation in education and society (with John Ainley), Monash University-ACER Centre for the Economics of Education and Training Annual Conference (2007)
 

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School Leadership and Learning : an Australian Overview, ACER Annual Research Conference (2007)
 

Reports

Harnessing Educational Cooperation in the East Asia Summit (EAS) for Regional Competitiveness and Community Building (with R Horne, Andrew Dowling, and Adrian Beavis), Andrew Dowling (2008)
 

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Staff in Australia’s Schools 2007 (with Julie Kos, Maurice Walker, Jennifer Hong, and Susanne Owen), Teaching and Learning and Leadership (2008)
 

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Australian Young People : Their Stories, Their Families And Post School Plans (with Jennifer Bryce, Michelle Anderson, and Tracey Frigo), Transition and Post-School Education and Training (2007)
 

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OECD improving school leadership activity : Australian country background report (with Michelle Anderson, Peter Gronn, Lawrence Ingvarson, Andrew Jackson, Elizabeth Kleinhenz, Bill Mulford, and Nick Thornton) (2007)
 

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Teacher Education Accreditation : A Review of National and International Trends and Practices (with Lawrence Ingvarson, Alison Elliott, and Elizabeth Kleinhenz), Teacher Education (2006)