AGY-1980 | Board of Secondary School Studies

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The Board of Secondary Studies replaced the Board of Examiners under the Public Instruction and University (Amendment) Act, 1936 (Act No 21, 1936). The Board of Secondary Education was consisted of the following members: · five members nominated by the Senate of the University of Sydney; · five officers of the Department of Public Instruction; such members shall include the Director of Education, the Chief Inspector of Schools, and the Superintendent of Technical Education; · one principal teacher of secondary schools (other than Roman Catholic schools); · one person to represent the Roman Catholic Secondary Schools; · one headmaster and one headmistress of State secondary schools. Such headmaster and headmistress shall be nominated by the Secondary Teachers’ Association of the New South Wales Public School Teachers’ Federation (1). The Director of Education was to be the chairman of the Board. 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 the leaving certificate and the higher leaving certificate, and the award of such certificates; · to make such arrangements as may be necessary for the conduct of examinations for the leaving certificate and the higher leaving certificate, and to regulate the conduct of those examinations; · to determine the course of study to be followed in secondary schools by candidates for such certificates and to authorise the issue of such certificates: Provided that no candidate for any such certificate shall be compelled, as a condition of obtaining such certificate, to follow a course of study in any of the following subjects, namely:- modern history, biology, physiology; · to appoint for each subject of the school curriculum special committees (which shall include practising teachers at least one of whom shall represent Roman Catholic Schools) for the purpose of recommending to the Board the content of any such course of study (2). The Board of Secondary School Studies was replaced under the Education Act 1961, by the Secondary Schools Board and the Board of Senior School Studies. NOTES (1) Public Instruction and University (Amendment) Act No.21, 1936. Part 5a, Sect 32a. (2) Ibid; Part 5a, Sect 32b.