您需要了解的所有有关澳大利亚公立学校的信息，包括学区分化信息。
今天宣布悉尼雪梨男孩中学将在下周一重新开放。这个周末将彻底清洁学校。此外，所有亲密接触者，包括受感染学生的教职员工和学生，都将被要求在家进行14天的自我隔离。
社区中有不少恐慌，有些家长要求更长的学校停课时间和更严厉的隔离方法。至少到目前为止，我个人认为我们尚未达到这一危险水平。我认为在避免出现过度恐慌的情况下已采取了适当的措施。人们要记住的是，一切都有代价，严格的检疫或类似方法也会产生严重的连锁反应。
如果现在开始社会人与人距离的增加，这会很大程度上减轻冠状病毒的潜在传播。同样，这种病毒的教育需要立即开始，人们需要了解病毒如何传播以及如何防止。超市里抢手纸肯定不是大家要做的。但是，我不认为至少在目前需要采取更严厉的措施，例如在澳大利亚关闭大规模学校。
在接下来的几个月中我们需要做好准备，但不要过分惊慌。减慢病毒蔓延并使其变为可控制的情况的关键是要积极主动，而不仅仅是对此作出反应。因此，诸如增加社交距离和洗手，以及真正地教育人们如怀疑他们被冠状病毒感染该怎么办之类的事情将变得非常重要。
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我今天刚在新闻上看到来自Epping Boys High School的一名11年级学生被诊断出患有冠状病毒。因此，整个学校在本周五因新南威尔士州卫生部长的命令而关闭。
到目前为止，学校只是关闭一天的时间，另外所有学生，教师和工作人员被要求在这个周末自我隔离。这个周末也将宣布有关Epping Boys High School关闭的进一步决定。
这是新南威尔士州的第25个案例，并且感染的数量正在迅速上升，因此可以肯定地说社区传播已经持续了一段时间。悉尼北部Macquarie Park（麦格理公园）和Ryde地区 附近有很多新病例。刚刚提到的Epping Boys High School也在这一地区。
事情正在迅速恶化，几乎肯定还会有更多的案件出现在各个学校里。因此，我认为在接下来的几周内将有更多的学校关闭，特别是在北悉尼地区附近。随着事情的发展，即使在四月的秋季假期之前，如果个别学校会关闭也我也不会感到惊讶。
如果以目前的速度恶化，几乎可以肯定的是，悉尼部分地区和澳大利亚其他地区将开始在以后几个月里大规模停课。
我认为我们需要采取必要措施来减慢这种冠状病毒的速度，以免医院被挤减慢这种冠状病毒的速度，以免医院被挤爆了。因此，如果需要停课，我们也要去做。目前，学校普遍停课还为时过早，但是随着情况的变化，我们可能必须在接下来的几周内就要做出决定。
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我想我也应该跳上讨论新冠状病毒肺炎的潮流。首先是背景，澳大利亚是一个几乎所有人口都来自世界各地的国家。每年有成千上万的新移民决定在该国定居。这意味着澳大利亚人经常与其原生国有密切的联系，出国旅行也非常普遍。有趣的是，如果与任何随机国家/地区一起举办体育比赛，您将有可能找到良好的支持人群。糟糕的是，在世界任何地方都爆发像新冠状病毒肺炎一样的病毒，我们很可能也会在澳大利亚看到进口病例。
到目前为止，在澳大利亚，中小学根本没有受到任何影响，每个州的所有学校都正常运转。由于上周之前，大多数已知病例都集中在中国，因此澳大利亚政府已经禁止了过去14天内有中国旅行和居住史的人入境，公民，永久居民和直系亲属处外。
澳大利亚学校有很多学生，他们的家庭最初来自中国，这意味着许多人在圣诞节的暑假期间访问中国。现在实施的基本规则是，建议所有从中国归国的学生在返校前呆在家里14天。随着其他国家（尤其是韩国，意大利和伊朗）局势的恶化。我不会感到惊讶对于从其他国家回来的学生也很有可能会提出类似的建议。由于学期已经开始，因此即使以上会发生也要到第二学期在4月中下旬开始才产生影响。
因为现在，新冠状病毒肺炎已经传播到韩国，日本，欧洲大部分地区，并且看起来也将在美国传播。因此，我认为4月会有更多类似的14天自我隔离建议。具有讽刺意味的是，我们可能会看到对中国放宽旅行限制，而对许多其他许多国家收紧旅行限制。
到目前为止，我们还不知道新冠状病毒肺炎会如何表现，如果不是像夏天来临时就开始消失的普通流感一样，那情况就会变的恨复杂。我们最终可能会看到临时学校关闭的极端情况。到目前为止，我们还没有看到这种情况的发生，发生这种情况的机会也很小。但是，随着冬季和流感季节的来临，我们很可能会看到澳大利亚部分地区发生了这种极端情况。
在大学来讲，由于大量中国学生无法前往澳大利亚，目前仍存在很大危机。如果这种情况持续下去，将可能给澳大利亚高等教育界带来沉重打击。我预计随着压力的增加和中国对新冠状病毒肺炎的有效控制，除湖北省以外的中国地区的旅行限制将可能很快会被取消。但我认为从中国进入澳大利亚后的14天自我检疫的建议也将持续一段时间。
最终，随着新冠状病毒肺炎传播到世界各地，特定国家/地区的旅行限制变得越来越无用。除非澳大利亚阻止所有海外入境者，否则几乎不可能阻止新冠状病毒肺炎在本地扎根。我们可能会在短期内看到，所有进入该国的学生都可能需要在家里呆上14天的自我检疫期，然后才能再上学。当然，我们尚无法知道冠状病毒将对澳大利亚造成多大影响，还没有办法做出更加准确的预测。
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澳大利亚公共教育系统及其运作方式，我将仅在本文中讨论公立学校，而将私立学校留在以后再说。
学校教育
澳大利亚的学校教育分为小学和中学。中学也进一步分为初中和高中。
在澳大利亚有义务教育吗？有，但每个州略有不同，基本上非常相似。
澳大利亚的义务教育从学前班或预科到10年级。根据法律，另外每个人都必须处于以下其中一种状态，直到17岁。每个州可能略有不同，通常如下。
例如，ACT将要求所有儿童上学，直到他们17岁或12年级。
读完10年级的学生就会获得中学毕业证书，读完12年级的学生则会获得高中毕业证书，新南威尔士州通常称为HSC。另请注意，不同的州也可以使用不同的名称，但是证书的概念和功能几乎相同。
以上在澳大利亚所有州和地区中都相当一致。各州和地区的不同之处在于可以开始上学的年龄和截止日期。
例如，对于新南威尔士州，截止日期是生日7月31日。新南威尔士州的小学第一年叫做学前班-或更通俗地说是“Kindy”。只要学生在当年7月31日满5岁，新南威尔士州的孩子就可以在第一学期的第一天开始上学。新南威尔士州的所有孩子都必须在满6岁之前在小学上学。
许多父母，特别是在富裕地区的父母，会决定让他们的孩子晚一点上学，让他们的孩子上幼儿园，直到他们接近六岁再开始小学上学前班。这意味着学前班的学生之间可能存在很大的年龄差距，最多可达一岁半之多。父母这样做的主要原因是，他们觉得自己的孩子会更成熟，也更容易参加各种体育运动。如果您以前从未听说过，澳大利亚人会对体育运动非常疯狂，这在学校和日常生活中都是一件大事。
在维多利亚州，相当于学前班的被称为预科，只要学生在当年4月30日满5岁时就可以在第一学期的第一天开始上学。如果住在维多利亚州，则您的孩子必须在满6岁之前那年入学，这是义务教育的开始年龄。
南澳大利亚州和ACT的截止生日日期也是4月30日。
昆士兰州，西澳大利亚州和北领地截止生日日期为6月30日。
南澳大利亚州的截止生日日期在5月1日。
塔斯马尼亚州的截止生日日期在1月1日。
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The newly reopened Arthur Phillip High School which is a high rise school with a 17-floor building. This is first of the many and with the pressure of the ever-expanding population, high rise schools will be a more common sight in the coming years.
Personally I prefer schools that are only 4 to 5 floor at max, this way it can still easily traversed by stairs rather than having to rely fully on elevators. The newly built Arthur Phillip High School having to stagger each year’s recess and break time. I guess this is to avoid crowding with the stairs and elevators. I am sure most of you had some painful experience with waiting for elevators. Crowded stairs also are really dangerous if not managed correctly.
Arthur Phillip High School is will also have an open-plan environment, this one is very interesting and can potentially a detriment. Anyway, it is good to see the NSW State government making steady investment and progress in dealing with the exploding student population.
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There had been a lot of controversy with the NSW Selective High Schools and with a large number of articles plus opinions attack its existence, also whether it serves the intended purpose.
The main point of the attack is that Selective High Schools students are mainly from the high social-economical background rather than serving the general population as intend.
First, the main criteria published in the Myschool website is called ICSEA which is called Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage, the main items in this index are parent’s education background and geographic location of the school. Whether the family is rich or poor has no direct bearing in this index. I have done a number of previous blog entries on this topic already, so I will not go into this in more detail.
Now, we got all these out of the way, you can view the articles on SMH which is called The Sydney suburbs sending the most students to selective schools.
NSW Department of Education’s own research that only 10 per cent of students in selective schools had parents who did not have post-school education.
There were also few students from the city’s richest suburbs such as Bellevue Hill, Double Bay or Milsons Point, suggesting families in those areas are still opting for private schools.
While selective schools have high rates of socio-educational advantage – which means students’ parents are educated, a key factor in schooling success – the figures show that does not necessarily equate to wealth.
Please note, what shown above is pretty much what anybody who had experience with selective high schools will tell you as well. This shows the students that study and apply themselves will get in rather than determine by how much money their parents have. We should be encouraging health and fair competitions, rather than create artificial access restriction that disadvantages one group or another.
For all the bad raps that standardized tests are getting these days, they are still the fairest and best way, for now, to provide opportunities to people that deserve them. That could be Selective High School tests and HSC or other similar tests.
We do not need to destroy what has up to now an avenue for children of middle-class parents to advance with their aspirations by crashing the existing selective high school systems. The reason why some parents are pushing their kids into selective high schools is that they themselves are a big beneficiary of education and understand what a good education can do for you.
As a society, we need to emphasise the benefit of education and continuingly promote it and never let up. Particularly with more automation entering Australia and the world, we will need more highly skilled people, a good and quality education is the only way to achieve that.
通过电子邮件分享此帖 It is well known that NSW is experiencing a very significant enrolment surge in the last few years. This is well known in the communities as well with overcrowding in the local schools and many also filled with demountable classrooms.
There is a new article today on Another enrolment record as students head back to school on SMH.
Enrolments in public schools are continuing to grow to record levels. This year, there are expected to be 815,000 students in the sector, an increase of about 5000 on last year and almost 73,000 more than 10 years ago.
While the student census across the three sectors will not be held until schools open, the independent sector also expects further growth in enrolments. Between 2017 and 2018, enrolments grew by about 4500 students.
The public sector in Australia has recently reversed decades of shrinking enrolment percentage and starting to gain a larger share of student enrolment population. Also, most of the increases are happening at the younger end of the school population. Given the level of population growth due to both natural birth and immigration, this phenomenon is pretty much expected.
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This came across on the news today, Lane Cove North Public School’s hall was burnt down, at this stage we do not know what triggered it. However, it is unfortunate that we have too many cases of people setting fires to the schools. Personally, if you ask me, this is one of my most hated crime. My high school’s hall was burnt down a few years before I attended it and it had to be almost completely rebuilt. The toilet block was firebombed just before I started there and everybody had to use demountable toilets and they are pretty horrible.
Schools also get often vandalised as well and which in turn forced many of them erect high fences and locked down outside of school hour. This, in turn, deprives local communities valuable green and activity area. I love taking my kids to the local school riding bicycles and playing balls on the weekend. It is a real shame that you are not able to do so in many of the NSW schools.
Schools getting vandalised and damaged not force valuable funds to be used in rebuilt, clean and replace everything, it also often can stop students from able to attend a school or carry out the full range of normal activities.
We as a society need to treat these as a serious crime and treat them accordingly. Schools are the beating hearts of the local communities and similar respect need to be given to them as well.
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I had done way too much over time (not paid) for my day job recently and late to the party to this issue. There had been a lot of different articles on this topic, I am just going to use one as a reference which is Sweeping changes to HSC and syllabus proposed by government review from smh.com.au
I will quote a few lines to summarize the article to give you an idea of what has been proposed.
The biggest rethink of the curriculum in 30 years also suggests paring back primary school content to focus on literacy, numeracy and emotional development, more minimum standards, and a restructure of the syllabus around attainment levels rather than year levels.
In early years, literacy, numeracy and social and emotional development should be “prioritised over other areas of the curriculum and resourced to ensure every student is on track in their learning,” the report said.
Students in the middle years of school should study and meet minimum standards in a
“specified range of subjects” that would include knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. They should also study a language other than English in primary school.The primary and secondary curriculum should be restructured around so-called ‘attainment levels’, which would create a series of benchmarks against which students’ long-term progress could be measured, independent of their age or year.
smh.com.au
Let me use my take, this is simplification and refocus of the current syllabus of both primary and secondary level. I will throw in my opinion based on my own experience of the NSW education system.
First, at the primary level, I think a pretty good job has been done on the literacy side of things. There is a lot of focus from the school put in on the literacy in my kid’s school and similar feedback I get from the other parents in other schools as well. I cannot say the same for the numeracy side of things, there are too many comprehension types of questions and not enough basic skills imparted. Math often turns into a difficult subject for many kids were at the primary level this should not be the case.
Also personally I believe by far the majority of the responsibility for the social and emotional development rests with the parents.
Secondly, at the secondary level, there are definitely too many subjects not enough required basic skills imparted. Up to high school, we should be concentrating on teaching young people the fundamentals like math, computer skills etc.
Take math as an example I meet numerous of people at work that after graduating high school who does not know how to calculate GST portion if something sells for ten dollars. Simple things like that may seem trivial and none important, but can actually make a lot of difference in kind of work people do and how efficient they are done.
Lastly, we need to teach kids how to think and judge things on their own. On subjects such as History, we need to teach the kids why things happen the way they do. Judge and consider things scientifically and objectively.
One thing I noted in the current society of the echoing chamber of the internet, just about everybody just searches and read on the things they like and agrees with which is understandable. However, this merely amplifies one’s existing position rather than understand and learn about another side of the argument. Primary and early secondary schools are rare opportunities that we can shape and influence the kids before they get dump into the deep end of the internet.
This is not just for schools, but mostly for the parents as well, we need to pitch in and do our part if we wish for a better education for our kids.
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This post is meant to collect all the miscellaneous rankings I do with the Australian schools such as income per student top rank, ICSEA top ranking schools etc.
Top 100 “Richest” Schools in Australia
Australia Top ICSEA Ranked School For 2018
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