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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 ...
Year Notes School leaving age Employment age 0: Algeria: 16. 2011: 2: Angola: 12. 14. 2010: Benin? 14. 2005: Botswana? 15. ... Western Australia – 15; NSW – 17 ...
The Western Australian government is pushing the minimum school leaving age up from 15 in 2006 to 16 in January 2007 and to 17 in January 2008. As of 2013 the age was raised to 17 and 6 months. [31] Victoria changed their school leaving age from 15 to 16 in 2006. Since 2010, it is 17. [32]
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 ]
The Senior Secondary Certificate of Education (SSCE) is the graduation certificate awarded to most students in Australian high schools, and is equivalent to the Advance Placement in North America and the GCE A-Levels of the United Kingdom. Students completing the SSCE are usually aged 16 to 18 and study full-time for two years (years 11 and 12 ...
One in five children in year 6 were classified as obese in the school year 2023/24, and 13.8 per cent were overweight. This equates to over 134,000 children in year 6 living with obesity.
The Higher School Certificate (HSC) is the credential awarded to secondary school students who successfully complete senior high school level studies (Years 10, 11 and 12 or equivalent) in New South Wales and some ACT schools in Australia, as well as some international schools in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, and Papua New Guinea.
As of 2018, including private schools run by Catholic religious institutes, of the 9,477 schools in Australia 1,140 schools (12 per cent) are in the private sector. In the same year, private schools enrolled over 617,000 students or 16 per cent of the Australian student population. [124]