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CHIEF MINISTER FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

Higher School Certificate Courses

Question No.263

MR WOOD- To ask the Chief Minister - Does ACT TAFE provide courses related to study towards year 12 Certification in NSW; if so, what are these courses and how long will they continue to be available.

CHIEF MINISTER- The answer to the members question is as follows:

The ACT Institute of TAFE has offered the NSW Higher School Certificate to students 19 years of age and older, as a pre-requisite to vocational and other studies for the past-25 years.

Following a decision in last years ACT Government budget, ..ACT TAFE ceased offering this course to evening students and 1990 will be the final year that this particular course is offered to full-time day students.

From the beginning of 1991 ACT TAFE will offer the ACT Year 12 Matriculation program. Course development and preparations for the introduction of the ACT program are well in hand and enrolments will take place in February 1991. An enrolment of 150 students from within the ACT and overseas is anticipated.

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