Page 2856 - Week 09 - Thursday, 27 September 2007

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Mr Barr: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:

(1) The number of year 10 certificates awarded in the ACT for each of the past five years is provided in table 1.

Table 1: Year 10 certificates awarded in ACT secondary schools 2002 - 2006

(2) Figures for 2006 are publicly available from the ACT Board of Senior Secondary Studies website, in the Year 12 Study 2006, Table 2.3a.

(3) Statistics on the number of year 10 certificates awarded in the ACT secondary school system are not displayed in the Department of Education and Training’s annual reports. Government and departmental policy focuses on maximising student retention and participation to completion of year 12 rather than year 10. At this time there is no intention to include statistics on the number of year 10 certificates awarded in future annual reports.

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(a) Non-government schools provide minimal personal information about students awarded an ACT year 10 certificate. The information provided by non-government schools is insufficient to accurately track students from year 10 to year 11 in February of the year following the award of the year 10 certificate. The data in table 2 is for students who were awarded an ACT year 10 certificate at a government school and then enrolled in year 11 in a government college in February of the following year.

Table 2: Number of government school students who received a year 10 certificate and enrolled at a government college in February of the following year

(b) Figures for 2006 are publicly available from the ACT Board of Senior Secondary Studies website, in the Year 12 Study 2006, Table 1.1.

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