Australia



This page is the beginning of a process...one which we hope will engage teachers through Australia and throughout the various education sectors.

Australian WikiEducator Participants

 * Cherry Stewart-DEHub
 * Lindy Klein-DEHub
 * Alison Ruth
 * Janet Cumming
 * James Neill
 * Stephen Heart
 * Graham Hughes
 * Janita Thomson
 * Alan Wylie-DEHub
 * Sandy Causer aka Wakalena
 * Grazia Scotellaro

Derek Thomas

States

 * Queensland
 * New South Wales
 * Victoria
 * Tasmania
 * South Australia
 * Western Australia
 * Northern Territory
 * Australian Capital Territory

Education System
The Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) is a quality assured national framework of qualifications in the school, vocational education and training (VET), and higher education sectors in Australia.

There are a number of ways of categorising the Australian Education System.


 * 1) The Schools Sector is made up of -
 * 2) Primary School (Generally 7 years)
 * 3) Secondary School (5 or 6 years, depending on state)
 * 4) The VET Sector -
 * 5) is made up of a number of public (TAFE) and private providers - all of whom must be registered by the Government and are therefore known as Registered Training Organisation's (RTO's)
 * 6) Provide Learners with qualifications from a Certificate I up to Associate Diploma Level
 * 7) Providers are usually more vocationally / practically oriented, and assessment is competency based
 * 8) Some early VET qualifications may be offered to students in the final years of Secondary schooling
 * 9) Generally qualifications can take from 6 months to 4 years, depending on the level and use.
 * 10) The Higher Education Sector -
 * 11) is usually made up of universities (Public, or government, universities predominate although there are some private universities as well)
 * 12) qualifications may commence at Associate Degree or Diploma (usually 1 to 2 years), Bachelors Degree (usually 3 to 4 years), and then various post-graduate levels.

An alternative categorisation is -
 * 1) The Pre-School Sector - sometimes known as Early Learning or Early Education, for children not yet old enough for formal schooling (which usually starts around age 5)
 * 2) The Schools Sector - made up of both the Primary and High (secondary) school levels
 * 3) The Post-School Sector (sometimes known as the Adult Education Sector) - made up of all education and learning that occurs after formal schooling and includes
 * 4) The Adult and Community Education Sector, which provides general learning courses for adults
 * 5) The VET Sector, which generally provides vocationally oriented courses
 * 6) The Higher Education Sector, which generally provides degree courses

In the past the Education System would have been categorised as -
 * 1) Primary - early school education (usually from about age 5 to 11 or 12)
 * 2) Secondary - high school education (usually from age 11 or 12 to 17 or 18)
 * 3) Tertiary - initially known as university level education, but eventually came to encompass all formal post school education


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