❓ The Premier provides an update on the government's plan to re-establish Perth Modern School as a centre of academic excellence, highlighting strong application numbers and implementation progress.
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PERTH MODERN SCHOOL
Will the Premier provide the house with an update on the government’s proposal to make Perth Modern School a centre of academic excellence? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
Will the Premier provide the house with an update on the government’s proposal to make Perth Modern School a centre of academic excellence? Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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I thank the member for Perth for this opportunity. I was Minister for Education and Training at the time of the last election, when the government proposed to re-establish Perth Modern School as a centre of academic excellence in the education system in Western Australia. I felt that it was a glaring deficiency that the public education system did not have such a school. These schools exist, and are very successful, in other states. Such a status had been the origin of Perth Modern School’s very high reputation, so the government has put in place a policy initiative to re-establish the school in that mould. I am delighted to advise the house that Perth Modern School has been inundated with applications for places in year 8 for 2007, which is when the new model will become effective. It will apply only to year 8 students to begin with, and it will then work its way through each year. More than 760 of Western Australia’s brightest year 7 students have picked the new academically selective Perth Modern School as their secondary school of choice for next year. From today, hundreds of prospective students will sit nationally recognised aptitude tests in an effort to secure one of the 160 year 8 places being offered next year. By 2011, all students at Perth Modern School will have gained entry through the selective testing process, meaning that the school will cater specifically for the state’s brightest and best. When the policy was announced, it was given strong community support, and I think it received cross-party support as well. I anticipate that it will be very successful. So far, its implementation is well on track. The applications by 760 students for 160 places re-establishes the very clear model that a student must be among the brightest and best to get into that school. I look forward to that policy becoming a reality.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Perth for this opportunity. I was Minister for Education and Training at the time of the last election, when the government proposed to re-establish Perth Modern School as a centre of academic excellence in the education system in Western Australia. I felt that it was a glaring deficiency that the public education system did not have such a school. These schools exist, and are very successful, in other states. Such a status had been the origin of Perth Modern School’s very high reputation, so the government has put in place a policy initiative to re-establish the school in that mould. I am delighted to advise the house that Perth Modern School has been inundated with applications for places in year 8 for 2007, which is when the new model will become effective. It will apply only to year 8 students to begin with, and it will then work its way through each year. More than 760 of Western Australia’s brightest year 7 students have picked the new academically selective Perth Modern School as their secondary school of choice for next year. From today, hundreds of prospective students will sit nationally recognised aptitude tests in an effort to secure one of the 160 year 8 places being offered next year. By 2011, all students at Perth Modern School will have gained entry through the selective testing process, meaning that the school will cater specifically for the state’s brightest and best. When the policy was announced, it was given strong community support, and I think it received cross-party support as well. I anticipate that it will be very successful. So far, its implementation is well on track. The applications by 760 students for 160 places re-establishes the very clear model that a student must be among the brightest and best to get into that school. I look forward to that policy becoming a reality.
I thank the member for Perth for this opportunity. I was Minister for Education and Training at the time of the last election, when the government proposed to re-establish Perth Modern School as a centre of academic excellence in the education system in Western Australia. I felt that it was a glaring deficiency that the public education system did not have such a school. These schools exist, and are very successful, in other states. Such a status had been the origin of Perth Modern School’s very high reputation, so the government has put in place a policy initiative to re-establish the school in that mould. I am delighted to advise the house that Perth Modern School has been inundated with applications for places in year 8 for 2007, which is when the new model will become effective. It will apply only to year 8 students to begin with, and it will then work its way through each year. More than 760 of Western Australia’s brightest year 7 students have picked the new academically selective Perth Modern School as their secondary school of choice for next year. From today, hundreds of prospective students will sit nationally recognised aptitude tests in an effort to secure one of the 160 year 8 places being offered next year. By 2011, all students at Perth Modern School will have gained entry through the selective testing process, meaning that the school will cater specifically for the state’s brightest and best. When the policy was announced, it was given strong community support, and I think it received cross-party support as well. I anticipate that it will be very successful. So far, its implementation is well on track. The applications by 760 students for 160 places re-establishes the very clear model that a student must be among the brightest and best to get into that school. I look forward to that policy becoming a reality.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: I thank the member for Perth for this opportunity. I was Minister for Education and Training at the time of the last election, when the government proposed to re-establish Perth Modern School as a centre of academic excellence in the education system in Western Australia. I felt that it was a glaring deficiency that the public education system did not have such a school. These schools exist, and are very successful, in other states. Such a status had been the origin of Perth Modern School’s very high reputation, so the government has put in place a policy initiative to re-establish the school in that mould. I am delighted to advise the house that Perth Modern School has been inundated with applications for places in year 8 for 2007, which is when the new model will become effective. It will apply only to year 8 students to begin with, and it will then work its way through each year. More than 760 of Western Australia’s brightest year 7 students have picked the new academically selective Perth Modern School as their secondary school of choice for next year. From today, hundreds of prospective students will sit nationally recognised aptitude tests in an effort to secure one of the 160 year 8 places being offered next year. By 2011, all students at Perth Modern School will have gained entry through the selective testing process, meaning that the school will cater specifically for the state’s brightest and best. When the policy was announced, it was given strong community support, and I think it received cross-party support as well. I anticipate that it will be very successful. So far, its implementation is well on track. The applications by 760 students for 160 places re-establishes the very clear model that a student must be among the brightest and best to get into that school. I look forward to that policy becoming a reality.
I thank the member for Perth for this opportunity. I was Minister for Education and Training at the time of the last election, when the government proposed to re-establish Perth Modern School as a centre of academic excellence in the education system in Western Australia. I felt that it was a glaring deficiency that the public education system did not have such a school. These schools exist, and are very successful, in other states. Such a status had been the origin of Perth Modern School’s very high reputation, so the government has put in place a policy initiative to re-establish the school in that mould. I am delighted to advise the house that Perth Modern School has been inundated with applications for places in year 8 for 2007, which is when the new model will become effective. It will apply only to year 8 students to begin with, and it will then work its way through each year. More than 760 of Western Australia’s brightest year 7 students have picked the new academically selective Perth Modern School as their secondary school of choice for next year. From today, hundreds of prospective students will sit nationally recognised aptitude tests in an effort to secure one of the 160 year 8 places being offered next year. By 2011, all students at Perth Modern School will have gained entry through the selective testing process, meaning that the school will cater specifically for the state’s brightest and best. When the policy was announced, it was given strong community support, and I think it received cross-party support as well. I anticipate that it will be very successful. So far, its implementation is well on track. The applications by 760 students for 160 places re-establishes the very clear model that a student must be among the brightest and best to get into that school. I look forward to that policy becoming a reality.
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