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| Topic Started: 12 Nov 2005, 12:36 AM (839 Views) | |
| tubbydrawers | 12 Nov 2005, 12:36 AM Post #1 |
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I am currently looking at schools and was wondering if they had league tables or reports like they do in the U.K, telling you the schools performances and what is good/bad about them. Thanks |
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| Bordy | 12 Nov 2005, 04:28 AM Post #2 |
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This is best I can find TD. http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/statistics/...schoolstats.pdf |
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| Hannah | 12 Nov 2005, 03:28 PM Post #3 |
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I read in the the news sometime last month that they'll be implementing this to all govt and private schools starting school year 2006. Its more of disclosing the schools' status as compared to national standard. So for now, nothing official yet. I'll check it and will post it here once I find it. Cheers, Hannah |
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| Hannah | 12 Nov 2005, 03:37 PM Post #4 |
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Ok, found it!!! Here's the article on the changes of the Education Act in Victoria. Cheers again, Hannah ========= Schools to be an open book Paula Beauchamp education reporter 14 September 2005 VICTORIAN parents will be sent report cards on their school's academic results and absentee rates, with all schools ordered to throw open their books. The new laws, covering 830,000 children at government, independent schools, are set to make Victorian parents the best-informed in the country. Education Minister Lynne Kosky revealed the changes exclusively to the Herald Sun yesterday, as part of the first Education Act overhaul in 133 years. The new laws require schools to mail parents their average results for nationwide Year 3, 5, 7 and 9 literacy and numeracy tests, and to compare them with state and national averages. Annual report summaries sent home to parents of secondary students will also: DETAIL their school's VCE averages, including completion rates and study scores. INCLUDE data on Year 12 school leavers, showing how many had found work, gone to uni or TAFE or were unemployed. PROVIDE school retention rates. HIGHLIGHT results for vocational courses. Parents of students aged 18-plus also won for the first time the right to receive their child's results as, currently, adult students can stop their parents accessing their results. The data will be available to government school parents for the first time early next year, while private school parents will have to wait until 2007. Ms Kosky said the changes would ensure Victorian parents were better informed than ever. "We are bringing in the laws because we think parents have a right to information about the school they've chosen for their child," she said. "We'd prefer they got the information so they could make informed decisions about their children's education." Ms Kosky said parents often ask for school performance data. "I think there will be less shying away from what the real issues are if parents routinely get this," she said. Ms Kosky said schools focused more on providing information about how they operated, including opening hours, number of classrooms and size of school, rather than performance. "I think any school that is allowed to give itself the name school should be focusing more on performance and results." Schools that refused to provide the information faced deregistration under the changes. All Victorian schools -- public and private -- will need to be licensed to operate when the new laws come into effect, and to win a licence they must meet minimum quality standards. Parents at government schools will also get student and parent opinion survey data and enrolment information. Ms Kosky said the Government was negotiating those matters with independent schools. The new laws will also enshrine parents' rights to decide where their child goes to school and their rights to get written information about their own child's school performance. The laws will shore up the child's right to go to their designated local school and children 18 or over will have the right to refuse parents' access to results if they live away from home or are estranged from the parent. Parents Victoria executive officer Gail McHardy said parents would feel more comfortable asking schools for information. "This will certainly give parents a lot more information without feeling they have to interrogate the school council to get it." |
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| OzTennis | 15 Nov 2005, 01:24 AM Post #5 |
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I appreciate you want to know about 'good' schools so I'll let you into a big secret if you promise not to tell anyone! Generally speaking there is a strong correlation between the performance of a school and the socio-economic background the pupils come from. Choose a suburb with high property values and the school is bound to have 'better' results as evidenced by VCE pass rates, tertiary entrance rates etc; choose a suburb with low property values and the school is bound to have below average results. A school league tables exercise like that lauded in Britain proves very little because it is not so much the school but the background pupils come from which largely determines results. I'll accept that some schools don't achieve as well as they should and others do better than expected but these tend to be the exception rather than the rule. This is why the Victorian tables are in alphabetical rather than achievement order. The real point is the 'value added' to a child during their education but this is incredibly difficult to measure so most politicians and parents go for the trusted league tables. I'd suggest you ask questions about specific schools in this forum, check out school websites etc. http://www.det.vic.gov.au/det http://www.maytel.net.au/htmls/secondary.html http://www.property.homeownerscard.com.au/...property&type=1 OzTennis |
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| tubbydrawers | 15 Nov 2005, 05:22 AM Post #6 |
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Hi, Thanks for the advice. I know it is a mammoth task sorting out schools and i was just hoping i could find something that will make the task a wee bit easier. I will look up the links you have advised and see how i get on |
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| ebo1608 | 15 Nov 2005, 03:48 PM Post #7 |
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http://www.alphalink.com.au/~drednort/schoolsinvic.html Gifted education in Victoria. Use schoolstats pdf to check VCE performance. Lots of good state schools as well as fee-paying ones. Ian |
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