About Claire Field & Associates
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Claire Field and Associates provides advice and strategic support to key Australian and international providers and stakeholders across the tertiary education sector. We assist education providers and others engaged in the tertiary education sector to successfully navigate changes in policy, funding and regulatory settings across the vocational education and training (VET), international and higher education sectors, as well the impact of GenAI and EdTech.
In 2024 Claire has been involved in:
In 2023 Claire was recognised as the IEAA “Excellence in Professional Commentary Award Winner” for her commentary on international education issues. She was also recognised by The PIE as one of Australia and ASEAN’s ‘Top 50’ voices on international education.
In 2023 she was also:
Claire has been invited by overseas governments and agencies to speak at a range of conferences including the June 2022 UNESCO Seventh International Conference on Adult Education and in December 2019 the ‘For the Future: International Conference on VET Development’ in Beijing, China. In November 2019 she chaired the panel discussion on ‘Harnessing Digital Technology for Application in Workplace Training with Employment Outcomes’ at the ASEAN-Australia Education Dialogue in Penang, Malaysia. She previously delivered a keynote address on quality in the private tertiary education sector at the invitation of the Singapore government, and was invited by UNECSO to deliver a keynote conference address in Myanmar.
Claire’s focus is on what Australian providers can learn from global education trends and how international forces are shaping the Australian post-secondary education sector.
Claire Field and Associates work with higher education and vocational education and training providers to:
Claire Field and Associates also provide consulting services that assist government agencies and tertiary education providers to:
Claire Field is a member of the Australian government’s Pacific Australian Labour Mobility (PALM) Advisory Group and provides advice to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on skills-related issues in South East Asia. In 2023 she was awarded the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) Excellence in Professional Commentary Award. She is undertaking a PhD at Torrens University writing the history of the university’s first ten years of operations in Australia.
Claire has worked in a variety of educational institutions including TAFE NSW and a national not-for-profit VET provider. She is the former Chief Executive of the Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET) which represented more than 1,000 private VET and higher education providers. Prior to that Claire held senior positions in State and Commonwealth government agencies with responsibility for policy, planning, performance review, and regulatory reform in the post-secondary education sector.
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As a Sydney-based agency with a national footprint, we acknowledge the traditional ownership the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, as well as Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia, and pay our respects to their Elders past and present. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. In our work in the education sector, we pay particular respect to the ongoing importance of education to Traditional Owners, in the passing on of knowledge through song, story telling and other means for thousands of years on this land.