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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 888 asked in the Legislative Council on 9 October 2018 by Hon Donna Faragher

Parliament: 40 Session: 1

EDUCATION — REGIONAL LEARNING SPECIALISTS

888. Hon DONNA FARAGHER to the Minister for Education and Training:

I refer to the answer given to question without notice 689 asked on 28 August 2018 regarding the government's election commitment to allocate regional learning specialists to work with year 11 and 12 students at regional schools.

(1) Will the minister provide a full list of the regional schools that these learning specialists will support and visit?

(2) Can the minister confirm that these specialists will work only with senior secondary students undertaking select ATAR courses who are enrolled at the School of Isolated and Distance Education?

(3) If yes to (2), will the minister list those ATAR courses that will be supported by these learning specialists?

(4) For each school identified in (1), will the minister advise how many students in 2018 are studying senior secondary ATAR courses that would be expected to be supported by these learning specialists?

Hon SUE ELLERY replied:

I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. Recruitment processes for the regional learning specialist positions are close to completion.

The answers to (1) and (4) are in a table that sets out the information requested, so I seek leave to have that incorporated into Hansard.

Leave granted.

The following material was incorporated —

Regional schools that learning specialists will support, as at 19 September 2018

School

Students*

(enrolments for 2019 are not yet known)

Albany Senior High School

0

Australind Senior High School

2

Beverley District High School

0

Broome Senior High School

1

Bunbury Senior High School

5

Carnarvon Community College

1

Central Midlands Senior High School

13

Christmas Island District High School

9

Collie Senior High School

5

Dalyellup College

5

Dongara District High School

6

Eaton Community College

4

Esperance Senior High School

0

Exmouth District High School

20

Hedland Senior High School

9

Jigalong Remote Community School

4

Jurien Bay District High School

6

Kalbarri District High School

10

Karratha Senior High School

9

Katanning Senior High School

9

Kununurra District High School

7

Lake Grace District High School

1

Leinster Community School

3

Manea Senior College

2

Manjimup Senior High School

3

Merredin College

1

Morawa District High School

5

Mount Barker Community College

2

Mukinbudin District High School

8

Narembeen District High School

0

Narrogin Senior High School

3

Newman Senior High School

8

Newton Moore Senior High School

2

North Albany Senior High School

4

Onslow Primary School

4

Shark Bay School

4

Tom Price Senior High School

1

Western Australia College of Agriculture —

Denmark

0

Wongan Hills District High School

10

York District High School

2

Total

188

Notes:

*Figures show Year 11 students who are likely to continue to be enrolled as Year 12 students in ATAR courses in 2019 and who will be supported by these learning specialists. The SIDE enrolment data for the 2019 Year 11 cohort is not yet available.

          Course enrolment for Learning Areas of: Mathematics; English; Science; and Humanities and Social Sciences.

          Many of these students will have multiple ATAR course enrolments.

 

(2) Yes.

(3) Yes. ATAR courses will be supported within the learning areas of English, mathematics, science, and humanities and social sciences. The SIDE 2019 senior secondary course offerings include English, literature, geography, economics, modern history, politics and law, mathematics applications, mathematics methods, mathematics specialist, biology, chemistry, human biology, physics and psychology.