Published Resources Details Report
- Title
- Shaping Their Future: Recommendations for reform of the Higher School Certificate
- Type of Work
- Report
- Imprint
- NSW. Department of Education and Training, Sydney, New South Wales, 1997
- Subject
- New South Wales; Secondary School Curriculum Policy; Curriculum Policies and Major Education Reports
- Description
- Follows the green paper Their Future: Options for the Reform of the Higher School Certificate.
- Includes 26 recommendations for reform: 1 in relation to the purpose of the HSC, 17 in relation to the curriculum, 6 in relation to assessment & reporting, 1 on selection for post-school destinations, and 1 relating to the membership of the Board of Studies.
- Sets out aims and objectives in three broad groupings: knowledge and understanding, skills, and attitudes and values.
- Recommends that the use of the 8 KLAs in the HSC be abandoned.