Your schools report card

[Rietie]

http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/farmer/schools_funding_brochure.pdf

Thanks costargh.

Hehe. Now I know why we are getting less funding:

Schools which draw students from the neediest communities receive
from the Australian Government 70% of the cost of educating
a student in a state school. Schools serving the wealthiest
communities receive about 13.7% of that cost.

Yeh...
My school doesn't exactly draw its students from needy communities, or offer scholarships to needy students.

[bubble sunglasses]

    hmmm, I remember hearing a Scotch student argue they deserved the same funding. he said that sure they have a big budget and great facilities, but that a lot of their wealth came from the generosity of alumni who were happy with their time there [and successful financially] such that they donated large sums, and the school shouldn't be penalised in terms of funding for having either those benefactors or students whose families were willing spend a lot on schooling.

[humph]

On the other hand, there's a ridiculously high dropout rate of private school kids from university for this very reason;

Oh really, what is this drop-out rate and what's the source?

No idea - someone should look it up (way too lazy). Apparently it's significantly higher than that of public schools. It's something I was told at my school by some teachers in the know, and I've heard other people saying it. But it could well be a myth. I doubt it though...

[ninwa]

This is the only info I could find on this:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/21/1029114133194.html

Popular wisdom has long held that students from private schools are more likely to drop out of university than their government-school counterparts.

But Peel says this is not strictly true, although students from private schools are slightly more likely to fail their subjects in first year, and less likely to receive high grades.

Peel believes that students who have come from private boys' schools are particularly susceptible to struggling in their first year at university. The discipline and regulation, both academic and social, that private schools pride themselves on, can cause difficulties when students take on higher study.

President of the Association for the Public University, Paul James, thinks some private-school students struggle to adjust to a completely different pedagogical setting, and their place in it.

"My experience is that some of the best students who come from private schools often find themselves shocked by being just one of many good students . . . and actually lose confidence very quickly," he says.

http://andrewnorton.info/2007/04/school-type-and-uni-completion/

Unfortunately these studies tend to focus on first year, rather than what happens in subsequent years. A new study out today by Gary Marks of the Australian Council for Educational Research doesn’t examine marks at university, but does look at completion of university courses by 2004 of students who were in Year 9 in 1995.

Without adjusting for any background variables, the study finds that university students who went to Catholic schools were the most likely to complete a course with a completion rate of 87.7%. Independent school students were next on 81.4%, and government school students just below that on 78.5%. But ‘overall, after controlling for background characteristics and ENTER scores, school sector had no impact on expected completion rates.’ So whatever problems some private school students have in first year, they do not translate into lower completion rates in the end.

[RD]

Median SS of 31, that is good.

My schools median is 28 ha.

yup, so is mine.

[amyminchin]

Speaking of teachers rates- my teacher actually get paid less than the public system... which is sad- but ultimately means that they are really passionate about teaching us or they sure as hell wouldn't be at our school.

[cobby]

St John's Regional College- Dandenong

10% of students achieved an ENTER of 90 or more
25% of students achieved an ENTER of 80 or more
44% of students achieved an ENTER of 70 or more

Does this mean that the 25% included  in an ENTER of 80 or more is also included in the 10% that got 90 or more? ie. Did 66% of my school get an ENTER less than 70 or 21% of students?

If it is the first option, that's terrible

HAHA cant wait to see this report for when my yr lvl finishes