Department of Education WA

Department of Education WA is the official YouTube channel for the Western Australian government department of the same name. The channel promotes the department through film and vlog-style videos. It was created on 14 December 2010.
== Background ==
The General Education Board, formed in 1847 was the first government educational agency in Western Australiahttps://ro.ecu.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7785&context=ecuworks, it was succeeded in 1871 by the Central Education Board and then finally the Department of Education in 1893https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/wa/WE00842. Briefly from 2003 to 2009 the department was known as the Department of Education and Traininghttps://archive.sro.wa.gov.au/index.php/department-of-education-and-training-au-wa-a1203http://www.dtwd.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/uploads/tafe_gc_2016_handbook_S7.pdf.
The Department of Education is responsible for developing and enforcing the state curriculumhttps://www.education.wa.edu.au/western-australian-curriculum under the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCASA)http://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/, which also sets and marks the Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) examinationshttps://www.education.wa.edu.au/future-skills-and-pathways#wace and administers NAPLAN (National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy)https://www.education.wa.edu.au/naplan and OLNA (Online Literacy and Numeracy Assessment) testshttps://www.education.wa.edu.au/olna. The department also manages the following agencies: Teachers Registration Board (TRBWA)https://www.wa.gov.au/agencyhttps://www.trb.wa.gov.au/, Schools of Special Educational Needs (SSEN)https://www.det.wa.edu.au/schoolsonline/overview.do?schoolID=6101&pageID=SO01#:~:text=The%20School%20of%20Special%20Educational,form%20the%20Schools%20of%20Special, Schools of the Airhttps://www.education.wa.edu.au/distance-education, School of Isolated and Distance Education (SIDE), and School of Alternative Learning Settings.
Tony Buti, MLA for Armadale is the current minister for education, since 2022https://www.wa.gov.au/government/premier-and-cabinet-ministers/dr-tony-buti#:~:text=Dr%20Tony%20Buti%20%7C%20Western%20Australian%20Government.
== Content ==
Discover Country Boarding, uploaded on 28 December 2012, was the first video uploaded to the channel, it has over 1,400 views as of 22 March 2024, if features two students giving a tour of Merredin Residential College, a boarding school in the wheatbelthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toXDK8FNB-s.
The most popular video uploaded to the channel as of 22 March 2024 is My WA: Story books in Aboriginal English - Wiluna, uploaded on 6 July 2016, the 5-minute long video with over 21,600 views focuses on promoting a children's book written and illustrated by indigenous students across the state in collaboration with Celebrate Diversity WA, it features interviews with Storybook facilitator Jacqui Williams, principal of Wiluna Remote Community School Adriano Truscott, and indigenous elder Stacey (Monty's "mum")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VbZw21v0Tk.
A documentary vlog-style series, News in Public Education was released on the channel from 2014 to 2017, it was only ever named in it's playlist with 40 installmentshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAACDE2731BC8E072.
The current channel trailer is Future Shapers, a nearly 3 minute promotional video uploaded on 11 March 2022 with over 1,500 viewshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SMKb2GmSpk.
== See also ==
* Western Australia
** Department of Fisheries
** Department of Fire and Emergency Services
** Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety
* Australia
== References ==
Category:Australian YouTubers
Category:Educational YouTubers
Category:Film YouTubers
Category:Vlogging YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2010