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x, 89 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Evaluations and Investigations Programme, Higher Education Group ; 03/01 |
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Evaluations and Investigations Program report ; 03/01
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Summary |
This study was undertaken to accurately map the opportunities secondary school students have to study university units for credit and to document the policies and conditions which facilitate (or impede) student access to such programs. Anecdotal evidence had suggested - rightly, as it turns out - that universities and schools are increasingly interested in developing arrangements which enable school students to access university units. In part, their interest reflects a world-wide trend towards framing all of education in terms of lifelong learning with a concomitant blurring of boundaries between educational sectors. In part, too, their interest is a recognition that able Australian school students need, and deserve, the stimulation of challenging advanced study.The landscape of access to university study by Australian school students is extremely uneven. The first systematic programs were devised in 1993 by three universities. Two of those, provided by Monash University and the University of Melbourne, remain the most comprehensive. They cater for the largest numbers of students and have the greatest (State-wide) reach. Indeed, with their combined total of more than 1000 student enrolments annually they account for nearly half the current Australian total of 2050 enrolments. The growth in accredited university study for school students has been gradual but steady. Twenty-three of the 37 universities which took part in this study have put in place at least one such program1. Many of the others are seriously investigating the possibility of developing a program in the future. Outside the two largest programs, the arrangements range in size from 142 students to six or seven |
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Electronic resource |
Notes |
"DEST no. 6915.HERC02A"--T.p. verso |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 89 |
Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web |
Subject |
Education, Secondary -- Australia.
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Articulation (Education) -- Australia.
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College credits -- Australia.
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University extension -- Australia.
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High schools -- Postgraduate work -- Australia.
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University cooperation -- Australia.
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Author |
Parker, Lesley H.
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Australia. Department of Education, Science, and Training. Evaluations and Investigations Programme
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ISBN |
0642773203 |
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0642773211 electronic version |
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