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The Intermediate Certificate was a certificate awarded in Australia for the successful completion of three years of high school. [1] (in the state of Victoria it was 4 years) This was at around age 14–15, in what was then called Third Form and is called Year 9 today. From 1943 until 2009, students in New South Wales were able to leave school ...
The Eastern division of New South Wales is one of the two school divisions of New South Wales. [1] The Eastern Division schools generally return to school one week earlier than their Western Division counterparts. This is historical and could be due to the higher temperatures experienced in the Western Suburbs during that time of year.
When it is necessary to allocate a week to a single month, the rule for first week of the year might be applied, although ISO 8601-1 does not consider this case explicitly. The resulting pattern would be irregular. There would be 4 months of 5 weeks per normal, 52-week year, or 5 such months in a long, 53-week year.
Director-General of School Education 30 April 1988 12 November 1991 3 years, 196 days Ken Boston Director-General of Education and Training Managing Director of TAFE NSW 2 January 1992 12 July 2002 10 years, 191 days Jan McLelland 22 October 2002 22 January 2004 1 year, 92 days Andrew Cappie-Wood 22 January 2004 14 April 2007
However, the NSW Government remained committed to the School Certificate for several years. [4] In 2010, the New South Wales Government asked the Board of Studies to review the School Certificate as part of the changes to the school leaving age in New South Wales and also the development of a national curriculum. [ 5 ]
Within each 100-year block, the cyclic nature of the Gregorian calendar proceeds in the same fashion as its Julian predecessor: A common year begins and ends on the same day of the week, so the following year will begin on the next successive day of the week. A leap year has one more day, so the year following a leap year begins on the second ...
The Education and Skills Act 2008 (which began being implemented in England in 2013) maintains the school-leaving age in England at 16, but requires that individuals above the school-leaving age (whom are aged between 16-18) either be working full-time or enrolled in a higher education institution (with higher education options open to those ...
The school is especially noted for its consistent academic excellence, having ranked 1st out of all New South Wales high schools in the Higher School Certificate for 27 consecutive years from 1996 to 2022, narrowly beaten by North Sydney Boys High School in 2023 and 2024, as well as 1st in the national government NAPLAN tests across Australia ...