Education in Australia
Primary and secondary education -- Types of schools
Table:
Government educational authority by state/territory

State/territory
Government educational agency
Other relevant authorities

Australian Capital Territory
ACT Education Directorate
ACT Board of Senior Secondary Studies

New South Wales
NSW Department of Education
NSW Education Standards Authority

Northern Territory
NT Department of Education

Queensland
QLD Department of Education

South Australia
SA Department for Education
SACE Board of South Australia

Tasmania
Tasmanian Department of Education
Office of Tasmanian Assessment, Standards and Certification

Victoria
Victorian Department of Education and Training
Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority

Western Australia
WA Department of Education

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The Australian Capital Territory , formerly known as the Federal Capital Territory until 1938 and commonly referred to as the ACT , is a federal territory of Australia containing the Australian capital city of Canberra and some surrounding townships . It is located in the south-east of the country and is an enclave within the state of New South Wales . Founded after Federation as the seat of government for the new nation , all important institutions of the Australian federal government are centred in the territory . On 1 January 1901 , federation of the colonies of Australia was achieved . Section 125 of the new Australian Constitution provided that land , situated in New South Wales and at least 100 miles ( 160 km ) from Sydney , would be ceded to the new federal government . Following discussion and exploration of various areas within New South Wales , the Seat of Government Act 1908 was passed in 1908 which specified a capital in the Yass-Canberra region . The territory was transferred to the Commonwealth by New South Wales in 1911 , two years prior to the capital city being founded and formally named as Canberra in 1913 . While the overwhelming majority of the population reside in the city of Canberra in the ACT 's north-east , the territory also includes some surrounding townships such as Williamsdale , Naas , Uriarra , Tharwa and Hall . The ACT also includes the Namadgi National Park which comprises the majority of land area of the territory . Despite a common misconception , the Jervis Bay Territory is not part of the ACT although the laws of the Australian Capital Territory apply as if Jervis Bay did form part of the ACT . The territory has a relatively dry , continental climate experiencing warm to hot summers and cool to cold winters . The Australian Capital Territory is home to many important institutions of the federal government , national monuments and museums .
The Government of the Australian Capital Territory , also referred to as the Australian Capital Territory Government or ACT Government , is the executive authority of the Australian Capital Territory , one of the territories of Australia . The leader of the party or coalition with the confidence of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly forms Government . Unlike the Australian States and the Northern Territory , the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly directly elects one of their number to be the Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory as the head of the Government , rather than being appointed by a Governor or Administrator . Since December 2014 , the Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory has been Andrew Barr , leader of the Labor Party . Following the 2016 ACT election the Government has been formed by a coalition of twelve Labor members and two Greens members . The terms of the coalition are outlined in the Parliamentary Agreement for the 9th Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory . Ministers are appointed by the Chief Minister . The current ministry of the Australian Capital Territory ( Second Barr Ministry ) comprises eight of the twenty five Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly .
New South Wales ( abbreviated as NSW ) is a state on the east coast of Australia . It borders Queensland to the north , Victoria to the south , and South Australia to the west . Its coast borders the Coral and Tasman Seas to the east . The Australian Capital Territory is an enclave within the state . New South Wales ' state capital is Sydney , which is also Australia 's most populous city . In March 2019 [ update ] , the population of New South Wales was over 8 million , making it Australia 's most populous state . Just under two-thirds of the state 's population , 5.1 million , live in the Greater Sydney area . Inhabitants of New South Wales are referred to as New South Welshmen . The Colony of New South Wales was founded as a British penal colony in 1788 . It originally comprised more than half of the Australian mainland with its western boundary set at 129th meridian east in 1825 . The colony then also included the island territories of New Zealand , Van Diemen 's Land , Lord Howe Island , and Norfolk Island . During the 19th century , most of the colony 's area was detached to form separate British colonies that eventually became New Zealand and the various states and territories of Australia .
The New South Wales Department of Education , a department of the Government of New South Wales , is responsible for the delivery and co-ordination of early childhood , primary school , secondary school , vocational education , adult , migrant and higher education in the state of New South Wales , Australia . The department was previous known as the Department of Education and Training ( DET ) between December 1997 and April 2011 , and the Department of Education and Communities ( DEC ) between April 2011 and July 2015 . The department 's powers are principally drawn from the Education Act , 1990 ( NSW ) .
The New South Wales Education Standards Authority ( abbreviated as NESA ) is the state government education statutory authority with the responsibility for the establishment and monitoring of quality teaching , learning , assessment and school standards in the Australian state of New South Wales . Formed on 1 January 2017 to replace the Board of Studies , Teaching and Educational Standards , NESA is responsible for setting and monitoring quality teaching , learning , assessment and school standards . This includes responsibility , across NSW public , Catholic and independent schools , for :
The Northern Territory ( NT ; formally the Northern Territory of Australia ) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia . It shares borders with Western Australia to the west ( 129th meridian east ) , South Australia to the south ( 26th parallel south ) , and Queensland to the east ( 138th meridian east ) . To the north , the territory looks out to the Timor Sea , the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria , including Western New Guinea and other Indonesian islands . The NT covers 1,349,129 square kilometres ( 520,902 sq mi ) , making it the third-largest Australian federal division , and the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world . It is sparsely populated , with a population of only 245,800 , fewer than half as many people as Tasmania . The archaeological history of the Northern Territory begins over 40,000 years ago when Indigenous Australians settled the region . Makassan traders began trading with the indigenous people of the Northern Territory for trepang from at least the 18th century onwards . The coast of the territory was first seen by Europeans in the 17th century . The British were the first Europeans to attempt to settle the coastal regions . After three failed attempts to establish a settlement ( 1824-28 , 1838-49 , and 1864-66 ) , success was achieved in 1869 with the establishment of a settlement at Port Darwin . Today the economy is based on tourism , especially Kakadu National Park in the Top End and the Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park ( Ayers Rock ) in central Australia , and mining . The capital and largest city is Darwin .
The Northern Territory Minister for Education is a Minister of the Crown in the Government of the Northern Territory . The minister administers their portfolio through the Department of Education . The Minister is responsible for planning , development and administration of schools , vocational education and training in schools , teacher registration , the regulation of the teaching profession , early years education and care services and regulation , distance education , the approval and accreditation of higher education institutions and courses , grants for educational organisations , and student assistance schemes . They are also responsible for the Charles Darwin University and the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education . The current minister is Selena Uibo ( Labor ) . She was appointed in a reshuffle in June 2018 .
Queensland ( locally /ˈkwiːnzlænd/ KWEENZ-land , [ note 1 ] abbreviated as Qld ) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia . Situated in the north-east of the country , it is bordered by the Northern Territory , South Australia and New South Wales to the west , south-west and south respectively . To the east , Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean . To its north is the Torres Strait , with Papua New Guinea located less than 200 km across it from the mainland . The state is the world 's sixth-largest sub-national entity , with an area of 1,852,642 square kilometres ( 715,309 sq mi ) . As of 15 May 2018 , Queensland had a population of 5,000,000 , concentrated along the coast and particularly in the state 's South East . The capital and largest city in the state is Brisbane , Australia 's third-largest city . Often referred to as the Sunshine State , Queensland is home to 10 of Australia 's 30 largest cities and is the nation 's third-largest economy . Tourism in the state , fuelled largely by its warm climate , is a major industry . Queensland was first inhabited by Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders . The first European to land in Queensland ( and Australia ) was Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon in 1606 , who explored the west coast of the Cape York Peninsula near present-day Weipa . In 1770 , Lieutenant James Cook claimed the east coast of Australia for the Kingdom of Great Britain .
The Department of Education is a department of the Queensland Government in Australia . The department 's offices are located at 30 Mary Street , Brisbane .
South Australia ( abbreviated as SA ) is a state in the southern central part of Australia . It covers some of the most arid parts of the country . With a total land area of 983,482 square kilometres ( 379,725 sq mi ) , it is the fourth-largest of Australia 's states and territories by area , and fifth largest by population . It has a total of 1.7 million people , and its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia , after Western Australia , with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital , Adelaide , or its environs . Other population centres in the state are relatively small ; Mount Gambier , the second largest centre , has a population of 28,684 . South Australia shares borders with all of the other mainland states , and with the Northern Territory ; it is bordered to the west by Western Australia , to the north by the Northern Territory , to the north-east by Queensland , to the east by New South Wales , to the south-east by Victoria , and to the south by the Great Australian Bight . The state comprises less than 8 percent of the Australian population and ranks fifth in population among the six states and two territories . The majority of its people reside in greater Metropolitan Adelaide . Most of the remainder are settled in fertile areas along the south-eastern coast and River Murray . The state 's colonial origins are unique in Australia as a freely settled , planned British province , rather than as a convict settlement . Colonial government commenced on 28 December 1836 , when the members of the council were sworn in near the Old Gum Tree . [ citation needed ] As with the rest of the continent , the region has a long history of human occupation by numerous tribes and languages .
The Department for Education ( South Australia ) is a state government department delivering school education throughout the state . Education in Australia at school level is managed by each state , though the Commonwealth government makes a significant contribution . The Department was established through the Education Act of 1875 which allowed for the establishment of public schools and contained provisions for compulsory schooling of children aged between 7 and 13 . As the state grew quickly into the 20th Century the Education Department expanded across the very large rural areas of the state . Post World War 2 , rising birth rates , large scale immigration and increasing demand for secondary education led to very rapid growth in the Department . The number of Private schools grew in this period and with increasing State aid provided growing competition for the State education sector . In the post war period several of large reviews of education have taken place : in particular the Karmel and Keeves reviews . In 2017 there were 514 Schools and approximately 172,000 students within the Department .
Tasmania ( /tæzˈmeɪniə/ ; abbreviated as TAS , nicknamed Tassie ) is an island state of Australia . It is located 240 km ( 150 mi ) to the south of the Australian mainland , separated by Bass Strait . The state encompasses the main island of Tasmania , the 26th-largest island in the world , and the surrounding 334 islands . The state has a population of around 533,308 as of March 2019 [ update ] . Just over forty percent of the population resides in the Greater Hobart precinct , which forms the metropolitan area of the state capital and largest city , Hobart . Tasmania 's area is 68,401 km2 ( 26,410 sq mi ) , of which the main island covers 64,519 km2 ( 24,911 sq mi ) . It is promoted as a natural state , and protected areas of Tasmania cover about 42% of its land area , which includes national parks and World Heritage Sites . Tasmania was the founding place of the first environmental political party in the world . The island is believed to have been occupied by indigenous peoples for 30,000 years before British colonisation . It is thought Aboriginal Tasmanians were separated from the mainland Aboriginal groups about 10,000 years ago when the sea rose to form Bass Strait . The Aboriginal population is estimated to have been between 3,000 and 7,000 at the time of colonisation , but was almost wiped out within 30 years by a combination of violent guerrilla conflict with settlers known as the Black War , intertribal conflict , and from the late 1820s , the spread of infectious diseases to which they had no immunity . The conflict , which peaked between 1825 and 1831 , and led to more than three years of martial law , cost the lives of almost 1,100 Aboriginals and settlers .
The Department of Education is a government department within the Government of Tasmania with responsibility for primary and secondary education , library and information services , vocational education and training services , children 's services , assessment and certification services and youth affairs . The department is led by its Secretary , Jenny Gale . The Secretary is responsible to the Minister for Education and Training , presently the Hon . Jeremy Rockliff MP .
Victoria ( abbreviated as Vic ) is a state in south-eastern Australia . Victoria is Australia 's smallest mainland state and its second-most populous state ( after New South Wales ) , making it the most densely populated state . Most of its population lives concentrated in the area surrounding Port Phillip Bay , which includes the metropolitan area of its state capital and largest city , Melbourne , Australia 's second-largest city . Victoria is bordered by Bass Strait and Tasmania to the south , [ note 1 ] New South Wales to the north , the Tasman Sea ( a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean ) to the east , and South Australia to the west . The area that is now known as Victoria is the home of many Aboriginal people groups , including the Boon wurrung , the Bratauolung , the Djadjawurrung , the Gunai/Kurnai , the Gunditjmara , the Taungurong , the Wathaurong , the Wurundjeri , and the Yorta Yorta . There were more than 30 Aboriginal languages spoken in the area prior to the European settlement of Australia . The Kulin nation is an alliance of five Aboriginal nations which makes up much of the central part of the state . With Great Britain having claimed the half of the Australian continent that is east of the 135th meridian east in 1788 , Victoria formed part of the wider colony of New South Wales . The first European settlement in the area occurred in 1803 at Sullivan Bay , and much of what is now Victoria was included in 1836 in the Port Phillip District , an administrative division of New South Wales . Named in honour of Queen Victoria , who signed the division 's separation from New South Wales , the colony was officially established in 1851 and achieved self government in 1855 . The Victorian gold rush in the 1850s and 1860s significantly increased both the population and wealth of the colony , and by the time of the Federation of Australia in 1901 , Melbourne had become the largest city and leading financial centre in Australasia . Melbourne served as federal capital of Australia until the construction of Canberra in 1927 , with the Federal Parliament meeting in Melbourne 's Parliament House and all principal offices of the federal government being based in Melbourne .
The Department of Education and Training ( DET ) is a government department in Victoria , Australia . Known as the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development until January 2015 , the DET is responsible for the state 's education system .
The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority ( VCAA ) is a statutory authority of the Government of Victoria responsible for the provision of curriculum and assessment programs for students in Victoria , Australia . The VCAA is primarily accountable to the Victorian Minister for Education . It is also responsible to the Minister for Training and Skills and the Minister for Families and Children in relation to sections of Part 2.5 of the Education and Training Reform Act 2006 . The mission of the VCAA is to provide high quality curriculum , assessment and reporting that enables individual lifelong learning . The VCAA is responsible for the Victorian Early Learning and Development Framework ( VELDF ) and the Victorian Curriculum . The Victorian Curriculum F-10 sets out a single , coherent and comprehensive set of content descriptions and associated achievement standards to enable teachers to plan , monitor , assess and report on the learning achievement of every student . The Victorian Curriculum F-10 incorporates and reflects much of the Australian Curriculum F-10 , but differs in some important respects , most notably the representation of the curriculum as a continuum of learning and the structural design . Victorian Government and Catholic schools are required to use the Victorian Curriculum F-10 . Independent schools may use the Victorian Curriculum F-10 as a model and resource for the effective implementation of the Australian Curriculum . The VCAA has taken a leading role in expanding delivery of the Victorian curriculum internationally . The framework to support this includes a northern hemisphere timetable . In 2015-16 , more than 1400 students participated in VCAA assessment programs with 25 overseas providers and in 2015 , 460 students completed the Victorian Certificate of Education ( VCE ) with offshore providers .
Western Australia [ a ] ( abbreviated as WA ) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia . It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west , and the Southern Ocean to the south , [ b ] the Northern Territory to the north-east , and South Australia to the south-east . Western Australia is Australia 's largest state , with a total land area of 2,529,875 square kilometres ( 976,790 sq mi ) , and the second-largest country subdivision in the world , surpassed only by Russia 's Sakha Republic . The state has about 2.6 million inhabitants - around 11 percent of the national total - of whom the vast majority ( 92 per cent ) live in the south-west corner , 79 per cent of the population living in the Perth area , leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated . The first European visitor to Western Australia was the Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog , who visited the Western Australian coast in 1616 . The first European settlement of Western Australia occurred following the landing by Major Edmund Lockyer on 26 December 1826 of an expedition on behalf of the New South Wales colonial government . He established a convict-supported military garrison at King George III Sound , at present-day Albany , and on 21 January 1827 formally took possession of the western third of the continent for the British Crown . This was followed by the establishment of the Swan River Colony in 1829 , including the site of the present-day capital , Perth . York was the first inland settlement in Western Australia . Situated 97 kilometres ( 60 miles ) east of Perth , it was settled on 16 September 1831 . Western Australia achieved responsible government in 1890 and federated with the other British colonies in Australia in 1901 . Today , its economy mainly relies on mining , oil and gas , services and construction .
The Department of Education ( WA ) is the government department responsible for education in Western Australia as well as on Christmas Island and the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands . Its head office is in East Perth . The department is led by its Director General , Lisa Rodgers , who is responsible to the Parliament of Western Australia and the Minister for Education and Training , the Honourable Sue Ellery , MLC .