Page 1495 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 11 August 1992

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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 12

Government Schools - Year 10 School Leavers

MR CORNWELL - asked the Minister for Education and Training on notice on 7 April 1992:

How many students by gender, apart from interstate

transfers and moves to non-government schools, left the ACT

Government school system after Year 10 in

(a) 1989;

(b) 1990 and

MR WOOD: - the answer to Mr Cornwells question is:

The Department of Education and Training does not maintain data on the number of students leaving government schools at the end of Year 10. Different enrolment procedures for college entrance do not allow a correlation of figures for college entrance with that of completion of Year 10 at a high school. Simple comparison of figures of students commencing Year 11 to those awarded a Year 10 Certificate in the previous year are misleading as considerable numbers of students transfer from non-government schools or leave or arrive in the ACT over the Christmas vacation period.

The following table shows data on Years 10 and 11 for the periods 1989,1990 and 1991:

Year 10 Certificate Year 11 Enrolments

Awarded (February Census)

1989 2793 1990 3514

1990 2887 1991 3797

1991 2684 1992 3692

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