Tertiary Admission for School-Leavers with Non-Conventional Secondary Schooling

This is the report of a project commissioned by the Department of Education, Science and Training and conducted by the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre Ltd in the Queensland setting. The project looked into the need to assess, for tertiary entrance purposes, the apparently increasingly varied profile of qualifications and experiences of young people by creating and piloting for school-leavers and other young people a comprehensive assessment method based on alternative evidence used in conjunction with or in lieu of the Tertiary Entrance Rank (TER).

An overview of the report and its recommendations is contained in Chapter One of the report. The key findings of the report are that:

• the admission of applicants to tertiary study, based on many routes and methods, should be recognised as the norm;

• there should not be barriers to young people being able to present alternative evidence to the TER as a basis for admission to tertiary study;

• the development of an alternative method to assess tertiary entrance for non-conventional school leavers is not required, as universities are already using a range of types of evidence to determine proficiency for tertiary study; and

• resources should instead be directed to helping students decide their educational and career directions.

Full Report    (1.26 MB) (If you are having trouble downloading the full report please use the split PDF files)

Split-PDF Report

• Cover/letter and index    (110.45 KB)

• Chapter 1    (151.75 KB)

• Chapter 2    (109.98 KB)

• Chapter 3    (152.89 KB)

• Chapter 4    (278KB)

• Chapter 5    (252KB)

• Chapter 6    (247KB)