Queensland drops public reporting of school comparison tables showing year 12 results

Key points:The University Admissions Centre has confirmed ATAR results are not made public nationallyEducation Minister Grace Grace said the decision coincided with the transition of Queensland schools to a national system of tertiary entrance scores – the individual Australian Tertiary Admission Rank, or ATAR.

"Unfortunately it makes it difficult – and this is the same all over the country – to compare schools when possibly around 15 per cent or more of those schools may not have the results that they require for a true comparison." "If parents want information on the school they are choosing for their child they are certainly able to do so at that school," Ms Grace said.

But opposition education spokesman Christian Rowan said the changed reporting was "not good enough" and "secretive". Dr Rowan suggested school-to-school ATAR comparisons were also important for the infrastructure and support-related decisions of government."Let me tell you, when schools need additional resources, they are absolutely given as required," she said.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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