AGY-1981 | Board of Senior School Studies

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The Board of Senior School Studies replaced the Board of Secondary School Studies in 1961. This Board consisted of 19 members, made up as follows: · seven were to be appointed from the State’s Universities; · the Director General of Education; · three officers of the Department of Education; · the Director of Technical Education; · a person associated with the training of teachers; · a principal teacher of secondary schools (other than Roman Catholic Schools); · a representative of the Roman Catholic Secondary Schools; · three qualified persons nominated by the Secondary Teachers’ Association of New South Wales · one person selected by the above members (1). Board members were appointed for a term of four years. The functions and duties of the Board were to: · make recommendations to the Minister in relation to matters connected with or concerning the conduct of examinations for higher school certificates and the award of such certificates; · to make such arrangements as may be necessary for the conduct of examinations for higher school certificates, and to regulate the conduct of those examinations; · to determine the courses of study consequent upon those prescribed for school certificates to be followed in secondary schools by candidates for higher school certificates, and to authorise the grant of such certificates; · to appoint for each subject of the secondary school curriculum for higher school certificates special committees for the purpose of recommending to the Board of senior School Studies the content of any such course of study (2). The Board of Senior School Studies was abolished in 1987 and replaced by the Board of Secondary Education. NOTES (1) Education Act No.47, 1961. Division 3, Section 9. (2) Ibid, Division 3, Section 10.