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The Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC) is a non-profit organisation that provides undergraduate and postgraduate tertiary entry and application services for 17 major universities and tertiary education institutions in Queensland and northern New South Wales. [2] [1] [4] QTAC is funded entirely by student application fees.
The Commonwealth Higher Education Support Act 2003 sets out three groups of Australian higher education providers: universities, other self-accrediting higher education institutions and state and territory accredited higher education institutions. For admissions to universities, those students who have completed Australian state curricula are ...
Australian universities consistently feature well in the top 150 international universities as ranked by the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the QS World University Rankings, and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. From 2012 through 2016, eight Australian universities have featured in the top 150 universities of these ...
In June 2009, the Federal Minister for Education Julia Gillard announced the removal of all state-level university entrance scores and the introduction of a national Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) for Year 12 students of 2009 within the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales, and for the rest of the country, excluding Queensland, in 2010. [11]
In 1860 the Education Act was enacted. It placed all primary education under one general and comprehensive system controlled by the Board of General Education. [8] Under the Act, education in Queensland is free, secular and compulsory. [8] Warwick East State School, established in September 1850, is the oldest surviving primary school in ...
Non-school-leaver university applicants were selected using other criteria: usually previous results, or results in the Special Tertiary Admissions Test. Each state's university and government education authorities determined the method of calculation of the ENTER or state-equivalent for students from that state, due to the historical ...
The Tertiary Entrance Rank (TER) was a tertiary entrance score used in several Australian states, the ACT [1] and the Northern Territory as a tool for selection to universities in Australia. As of 2010, it has been replaced by the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank in all states and territories (including Queensland as of 2020).
The PET covers three areas: mathematics, verbal reasoning and the English language. It is administered by the Israeli National Institute for Testing and Evaluation (NITE). University admissions are typically based on a weighted average (the "mit'am") of the PET score and the GPA of the Bagrut (High School Completion Examination). In addition ...