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MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

Question No. 201

TAFE Colleges - Students Repeating Year 12

MR CORNWELL: To ask the Minister for Education

(1) How many (a) Government and (b) non-Government Students were admitted in 1992 to ACT TAFE Colleges as repeating year 12 students?

(2) What was the cost to the ACT Government for students from each sector in (1)?

MR WOOD The answer to the members question is as follows:

(1) The ACT Institute of TAFE does not identify in its enrolment information whether students gained their secondary education in a Government or non-Governmeot. school.

The Institute has surveyed those students undertaking the ACT Year 12 program in ACT TAFE in 1992, to ascertain their prior experience in secondary studies. Some 152 students of a total of 229 students responded to the survey, with the following key results:

20% (31) had previously undertaken ACT Year 12. Of these over half (16) had undertaken such studies in 1991.

9% (14) had previously undertaken the NSW NBC.

71% (107) had not previously undertaken these courses.

TAFEs experience is that the presence of a majority of mature age students in this program positively influences the performance of those who could be classified as repeating students.

(2) It would be expected that the cost would be independent of where the previous

attempt at Year 12 was undertaken. As a guide to cost, the average cost per capita of

the TAFE alternative program for students who returned to Year 13 but who

subsequently transferred to TAFE is $5700. The cost of a place in the TAFE Year 12

program would be less than this, since this program has a restricted range of lower

cost options for study.

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