Hon Sue Ellery questions the Minister for Education regarding the breakdown of the $22.4 million allocated to the Switch teacher training program for the transition of Year 7 students to secondary schools. The Minister provides a detailed breakdown in tabular form.

AnsweredQoN 363Legislative Council
Asked
7 August 2013
Portfolio
Education

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YEAR 7S —
HIGH SCHOOL
363. Hon SUE ELLERY to the Minister for Education:
I refer to the Switch teacher training program funding
allocation of $22.4 million to retrain 525 teachers in preparation for the
transition of year 7 students to secondary schools in 2015. What is the
breakdown of how the $22.4 million will be spent?

AnswerView source ↗

I thank the honourable member for some notice of this
question. The answer is in tabular form so I seek leave to table the response
and have it incorporated into Hansard .
Leave granted. [See paper 497.]
The following material was incorporated —
Switch Program
2013-14
2014-15
2015-16
Total
Costs
($ 000's)
($ 000's)
($ 000's)
($ 000's)
University
postgraduate fees
1,095.0
1,575.0
480.0
3,150.0
Short
courses, training materials and travel/accommodation for regional teachers

951.9
1,369.2
417.3
2,738.4
Teacher
relief (study)

4,031.4
5,798.6
1,767.2
11,597.3
School-based
professional learning

0.0
3,431.0
1,504.0
4,935.0
Total
retraining costs

6,078.3
12,173.8
4,168.5
22,420.7

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