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原帖由 tangsun 于 2007-7-24 14:40 发表
我有一位朋友的孩子以前在balwyn HS，后来考上了melbourne high，他觉得melbourne high里的学生的普遍manner要比GWH 和BH的差很多，更不要和私立的比较了，他的其中一位犹太同学最后从melbourne high退学再回到balwyn high的精英班，所以我个人觉得精英学校的location并不会对校区的学校有很大的冲击，纯粹是个政府选址的问题。。。
我也有一位朋友的女儿，原先在Blackburn High读的，后来考到Mac.Rob，每天起早做公车倒火车倒电车去上学，后来考上墨大牙科~
Top again: students from MacRobertson Girls High School celebrate.
根据今年维州高中会考各中学的表现，政府精英女校MacRobertson Girls High School成绩依然出类拔萃，非常突出，连续五年夺得第一，并在今年创出十年来的最佳成绩。
VCE高考成绩按分数评定，最高是50分，30分属于中等，超过40分即代表成绩优异。
MacRobertson Girls High今年总共有240名12年级女生参加考试，积分中位数达到39分，高于40分的尖子生比例高达43％，五分之四的学生VCE成绩比例在90以上，五分之一则在99以上！
如果我女儿将来能考上这所精英学校，我是一定毫不犹豫让她去上的。:si164
下面这篇文章提到新的精英学校给教会学校造成的威胁：
Catholic schools fear talent drain
July 14, 2007 The Age
CATHOLIC education authorities have attacked a State Government plan to build more "select-entry" schools for high achievers, warning that their sector could be undermined by losing top students to the public education system.
The Melbourne Catholic Education Office's attack on a proposal for two academically selective schools in the northern and eastern suburbs is likely to spark tension between public and private schools.
The plan was revealed by Premier Steve Bracks before last year's election.
The co-ed schools, expected to open by 2010, are designed to ease demand at the state's only existing select-entry government schools: MacRobertson Girls High School and Melbourne High School.
In a briefing to Catholic school principals, Catholic education director Stephen Elder writes: "The Government proposal … will see the Government itself as a high-end competitor to the more elite schools. Other government and Catholic schools that share parishes as part of the catchments of the new schools could face difficulties that arise when students of high academic merit leave their existing schools, having obtained a place in these schools in years 8 or 9."
Select-entry schools use tests to enrol academically talented students, with the aim of helping them to do even better. Each year, students from MacRobertson Girls High School and Melbourne High top the state in the VCE.
The Catholic briefing paper identifies four Catholic schools most likely to lose their best students when a select-entry school opens in North Melbourne: the Academy of Mary Immaculate in Fitzroy, Simonds Catholic College in West Melbourne, St Joseph's College in Melbourne and St Aloysius College in North Melbourne.
While the Government is yet to confirm the eastern site, the paper says "schools such as St Joseph's College, Ferntree Gully, and Mater Christi College, Belgrave, may be the most susceptible" once it is built.
Licardo Prince, a spokesman for Education Minister John Lenders said that having more selective schools would give parents greater choice about where they wanted gifted children to study.
But Melbourne University education expert Stephen Lamb — whose recent research raised concerns about schools in poorer areas losing top students to wealthier government schools — said the Catholic sector had good reason to be concerned.
"When you look at MacRobertson and Melbourne (High) — about 50 per cent of their intake is from private schools — so it will be the poorer end of the market, such as Catholic schools that are most affected because their parents will be drawn to the fact that there are no fees," Professor Lamb said.
The concern from Catholic authorities comes two weeks after the Government announced it would review the way students apply for select-entry schools. At present, students trying to get into MacRobertson and Melbourne High must do a three-hour exam, in which only a few hundred are chosen from thousands.
The Government review will examine whether selective tests could be done collectively rather than separately, and whether the three-hour entrance exam should be scrapped or replaced with a written application and interview.
The current 3 per cent cap for selective schools — designed to limit the number of students who are taken from other schools — is also under examination.
Liberal education spokesman Phil Davis, whose party went to the election with a pledge for four more select-entry schools — said they catered for only a small number of students. "What we need to do is raise standards across the board," he said. |
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移民路上之难忘一刻（征文） (2005-1-22) DreamRedMansion 
发表于 2007-7-23 23:29
~~不过新的学校未必有这个高的声誉 
