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Minister for Health, Education and the Arts

Legislative Assembly Ouestion No 175

Education Costs - Comparison with States

Mr Wood - asked the minister for Health, Education and the Arts on 31 May:

1. Which agency collects data comparing costs of school level education between the state and territory systems?

2. Are the results of data collection fully and

publicly available?

3. To the extent that data is available, what is the relationship of costs of education in the ACT to the States and Australia generally?

4. Does the Minister have confidence in the information supplied by the States?

Mr Humphries: The following response is provided to me woods questions:

1. The Australian Education Council.

2. The results are published by the Australian Education Council and are publicly available.

3. The enclosed copy of the State table from the Australian Education Council report shows State/Territory comparisons for the 1988/89 financial year.

4. Yes. The information for the collection is supplied by each State/Territory system in accordance with guidelines provided by the Australian Education Council:

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