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Education Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States that relates to education.
The ACT has the highest retention rate in Australia with 89% of the number of students who were enrolled in year 7 in 1999 were enrolled full-time in year 12 in 2004. This retention rate has declined from a peak in 1994 when the rate was nearly 5% more, probably because of poor job prospects for young people at that time compared with 2004. [10]
Education in Australia encompasses the sectors of early childhood education [9] (preschool) and primary education (primary schools), followed by secondary education (high schools), and finally tertiary education, which includes higher education (universities and other higher education providers) and vocational education (registered training organisations). [10]
The Education act of 1872 was a law which removed state funding of non-government schools, and created a new Education Department to control government schools in what later became the State of Victoria in Australia.
The act provided for free and compulsory education for children from 7 to 13. [11] By the turn of the century South Australia was becoming more prosperous and the need for a well educated population was becoming more evident. The idea of universal State education was a new concept for society at that time and debate continued about the nature ...
This is a list of schools in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), which houses Australia's capital city, Canberra.The Territory's education system consists of primary schools, which accommodate students from Kindergarten to Year 6, high schools, which accommodate students from Years 7 to 10, and secondary colleges, which are specialist Year 11–12 institutions.
High Court of Australia Act 1979 1979 (No. 137) Yes (as amended) High Court Procedure Act 1903 1903 (No. 7) No Higher Education Endowment Fund Act 2007 2007 (No. 160) No Higher Education Funding Act 1988 1989 (No. 2) Yes (as amended) Higher Education Support Act 2003: 2003 (No. 149) Yes (as amended)
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.