Fate of thousands of year 12s in the balance as education heads meet

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Extending the academic year, postponing exams until next year, dropping some assessments — these options and more are expected to be discussed when the national Education Council meets today to work out how to run year 12 in 2020.

Several options have already been floated by the states ahead of the meeting.

"We've asked for a paper for all the state-based curriculum and assessment authorities to give us a sense as to how assessments, in particular, could pan out this year," he said. "How the pandemic plays out over the next six months ultimately will dictate, to a large part, what that looks like," Mr Tehan said.

Professor Manuel said now could be a chance for historic change — moving to assessments over the full school year, rather than end-of-year exams that determined much of a student's university admission rank."And we have to remember that the NSW external HSC examination system [has] remained relatively unchanged for more than 100 years. A lot has changed."

 

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It will be really interesting to the decision made by heads of education. This is such a challenging time for students, teachers and parents. It's important to remember that education is more than just class and assessments - e.g. skills, socialising, support, growth

Not rocket science....just reopen the schools like usual, stop all this ridiculous & appalling 'police state' shenanigans!

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