interestingly about the same proportion of tertiary graduates employed in the education sector both public and private considered their workplace to be highly innovative for at least one type of innovation the most common innovation reported in the education sector was in knowledge and methods of tertiary graduates employed in the education sector considered their workplace to be highly innovative in that respect compared to on average across all sectors figure in contrast considered their workplace to be highly innovative regarding products or services compared with on average and considered their workplace as highly innovative regarding technology tools or instruments compared with on average