The Higher School Certificate (HSC) is the credential awarded to secondary school students who successfully complete senior high school level studies in New South Wales and some ACT schools in Australia, as well as some international schools in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Papua New Guinea and Tonga. It was first introduced in 1967, with the last major revision coming into effect in 2019. It is currently developed and managed by the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA).
The Victorian Certificate of Education is one credential available to secondary school students who successfully complete year 11 and 12 in the Australian state of Victoria as well as in some international schools in China, Malaysia, Philippines, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. The VCE is the predominant choice for students wishing to pursue tertiary education. An alternative to VCE is the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL), a vocational based senior secondary school qualification. About 67% of all 19-year-olds in Victoria had completed the VCE in 2020, compared to about 11% of students completing the VCAL. A small number of government secondary schools, and a somewhat larger number of private schools, offer the IB Diploma Programme as an alternative.
Charles Sturt University is an Australian multi-campus public university located in New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory and Victoria. Established in 1989, it was named in honour of Captain Charles Napier Sturt, a British explorer who made expeditions into regional New South Wales and South Australia.
The Universities Admission Index (UAI) was used in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, as the primary criterion for entry into most undergraduate-entry university programs. It was a number between 0 and 100, occurring in increments of 0.05 and indicating the rounded percentile rank of a student who undertook the Higher School Certificate or ACT Year 12 Certificate with a valid quantity and combination of units of study. It was replaced in N.S.W with the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) in 2009. Prior to the UAI the ACT used its own Tertiary Entrance Rank
John Rudder, PhD, has studied the Australian Aboriginal languages, of Arnhem Land (Gupapuyngu) in the Northern Territory and the state of New South Wales (Wiradjuri), Australia.
TAFE NSW is an Australian vocational education and training provider. Annually, the network trains over 500,000 students in campus, workplace, online, or distance education methods of education. It was established as an independent statutory body under the TAFE Commission Act 1990. The Minister for Regional Development, Skills and Small Business is responsible for TAFE NSW.
Caringbah High School is a government-funded co-educational academically selective secondary day school, located in Caringbah, in the Sutherland Shire of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school was opened in 1960 as a co-educational high school and was nominated to become selective in 1989, over the neighbouring Port Hacking High. As of 2021 approximately 907 students were enrolled.
Wiradjuri is a Pama–Nyungan language of the Wiradhuric subgroup. It is the traditional language of the Wiradjuri people of Australia. A regressive revival is underway, with the language being taught in schools. Wiraiari and Jeithi may have been dialects.
Roseville College is an independent Anglican day school for girls, located in the suburb of Roseville, on the North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
St George Christian School is a multi-campus independent non-denominational Christian co-educational primary and secondary day school, located in Hurstville and Sans Souci, both suburbs of southern Sydney, in the St George area of New South Wales, Australia.
Crestwood High School is a public high school in Crestwood, Baulkham Hills, in the north-west of Sydney, Australia. Crestwood High School offers an education culminating in the award of the HSC, administered in accordance with New South Wales Education Standards Authority. Their overall state score is 90. The school offers comprehensive classes for students in grades seven through to twelve.
Marist Sisters' College, Woolwich is an independent Catholic single-sex secondary day school for girls, located in Woolwich, a Lower North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was established in 1908 by the Marist Sisters and has a non-selective enrolment policy which caters for approximately 1,000 students from Year 7 to Year 12.
Burwood Girls' High School is a public, comprehensive, secondary school for girls, located in Croydon, an inner western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Chifley College Senior Campus is located in Mount Druitt, New South Wales, Australia, catering to students in Years 11 and 12. It is one of the five schools within Chifley College and is locally known as Chifley Senior.
Mount Carmel Catholic College is a systemic Catholic co-educational secondary school of the Marist tradition located in Varroville, a suburb 46 kilometres south-west of Sydney. It is situated within the city of Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia. The current principal is Stephen Lo Cascio.
Taree High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school in Taree, a regional centre of the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.
The Universities Admissions Centre is an organisation that processes applications for admission to tertiary education courses, mainly at institutions in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. A not-for-profit company incorporated in July 1995, it has offices located at Sydney Olympic Park.
The "Australian Tertiary Admission Rank" (ATAR) all "intrastate" "domestic students", or the ATAR-based "Combined Rank" (CR) for all "interstate" or "International Baccalaureate" (IB) or "overseas-HSC " holder "domestic students", is the primary criteria for determining the "Selection Rank" (SR) for the admission into undergraduate courses in Australian public universities. ATAR & CR are not used for the admission into postgraduate courses. The "Domestic Students" (DS) are the students who are Australian or New Zealand citizen, or Australian permanent residents, or the holder of long-term refugee visa. All others are considered "International Students" (IS). ATAR & CR are not applicable to the international students as they must apply directly to each university separately and their SR is calculated by the university. ATAR is calculated by each state or territory's own state-level "Tertiary Admission Center" (TAC) for all domestic students studying within their geographical limits and it is used for admission within that state or territory where the student obtained HSC. "Combined Rank" (CR) is calculated by "Australasian Conference of Tertiary Admission Centres" (ACTAC) to establish national-level equivalency of ATAR across all states and territories of Australia and New Zealand by using a conversion table. CR is needed for the domestic students who wish to apply interstate, i.e. they obtained the HSC in one state and want to enroll in the university in another state, or those domestic students who did not go to Australian state's school board but instead studied in IB school in Australia or overseas, or the domestic students who completed their HSC or equivalent qualification overseas, or the Australian citizens who apply to universities in New Zealand. CR is also used by the public universities in New Zealand for granting admission to Australian citizens, as Australian citizens are considered domestic students in New Zealand under the reciprocal arrangement. "Interstate Domestic Students" must apply to the TAC of their respective state. "Intrastate Domestic Students" (IntraDS) or "Overseas Domestic Students" (ODS) must apply to the TAC of each of the state they wish to apply to, and TAC will use the ACTAC conversion table to calculate the "Combined Rank". The "Selection Rank" (SR) is calculated by each University separately based on the ATAR or CR as well as the additional points for university's unique criteria such as "a personal statement, a questionnaire, a portfolio of work, an audition, an interview or a test" or leadership and high performance, as well as special considerations such as lack of access to education and other disadvantages e.g. rural, Indigenous Australian or financially suffering applicants. ATAR is, not a mark or the score in the HSC, but a "percentile ranking" between 0.00 and 99.95 which shows the student’s relative position compared to all other students in the range of 16 to 20 years old who have completed their HSC exams in that state in any year. Higher ATAR is better, e.g. ATAR of 80 for a student means that the particular student is ranked in the 20th percentile range and 19% of other ATAR-eligible students are ranked higher than him and 80% of other ATAR-eligible students are ranked below him. ATAR for a specific year, is not based only on the students who passed the HSC within that year. ATAR for a specific year is calculated by including all the domestic students who are between the age of 16 to 20 in that year and have passed the HSC within that state in any year. While calculating the ATAR for a specific year, the following types of students are not given an ATAR rank, the 16-20 years old students who quit studying or did not pass the HSC, or who passed but are below the age of 16, or who passed but are above the age of 20. Due to these exclusions, the average ATAR is 70, without these exclusions the average ATAR would be 50.
Lorien Novalis School for Rudolf Steiner Education is a private, Steiner school located in Dural, a suburb in The Hills Shire, in northwestern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1971, the school teaches students from early learning, and Kindergarten to Year 12; and also offers playgroup services.
The Canberra College is an Australian Capital Territory public school, which educates students from year 11 to year 12. In 2022, Simon Vaughan was appointed Principal, taking over from Michael Battenally.
