Students in Sydney are up to four times as likely to take advanced maths and English courses for their HSC than those in regional areas, sparking concerns a growing number of students face limited access to the most rigorous, high-scaling courses.reveals fewer than 50 students in some regions studied economics, physics or extension maths courses for last year’s HSC.
The RBA’s head of information department, Jacqui Dwyer, said last week that the dramatic fall in high school students taking economics in the past few decades was stark in regional and public schools. For advanced English, most regional areas had less than 25 per cent of HSC students taking the course, compared with almost 55 per cent in east and north Sydney.
Roberts’ research has found the most advantaged students have better access to high-status subjects including chemistry and Latin. Petersen said when he taught at a Riverina high school in the late 1990s he took a 3-unit English class of nine students. Last year, 33 students took the equivalent subject in the entire region.
The size of the HSC cohorts used in the analysis range from about 750 in smaller regions to up to 6500 in the city.
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