Responsibilities include the monitoring of trends in educational theory and practice in Australia and throughout the world, assembly, maintenance and dissemination of data relevant to Catholic education, and the commissioning of support for educational research. The Commission has published the following vision for Catholic education in Australia. Each human being is a unique creation made in God's image and therefore possessed of inherent dignity. Education is about learning what it means to be human and that in Jesus Christ we have a model of what it means to be truly human. Education is a means of discovering meaning in life, of developing human potential and liberating and empowering individuals to be responsible for their lives and to contribute to the society in which they live.
Education enables an integration of faith, life and culture.