NATIONAL GOALS FOR SCHOOLING
NATIONAL GOALS FOR SCHOOLING
Under the Federal Government, as part of the National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-First Century, all Australian schools are required to ask questions related to the gender, country of birth, language spoken at home and indigenous status of each child as well as the educational qualifications, occupations and main language spoken by parents.
The primary purpose of national reporting is to improve the educational outcomes of our young people by informing the Australian public, and especially the education community and parents, about progress towards achieving the National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-First Century.
The National Goals specifically state that students’ outcomes from schooling should be ‘free from the effects of negative forms of discrimination based on sex, language, culture and ethnicity, religion or disability; and of differences arising from students’ socioeconomic background or geographic location’; and that ‘the learning outcomes of educationally disadvantaged students [should] improve and, over time, match those of other students’.
This information, along with all other information contained in this form, will remain confidential, subject to PLC Sydney's 'Collection of Personal Data', which can be reviewed here.
Before starting the questionnaire, please click here to download the Parent Occupational Groups.
To assist with the question that relates to Occupational Groups , please find a summary below:
Group 1: Senior management in large business organisation, government administration and defence, and qualified professionals
Group 2: Other business managers, arts/media/sportspersons and associate professionals
Group 3: Tradesmen/women, clerks and skilled office, sales and service staff
Group 4: Machine operators, hospitality staff, assistants, labourers and related workers, drivers, mobile plant, production/processing machinery and other machinery operators
Group 8: This category is used for participants who have not been in paid work for the previous 12 months or longer
If the person is not currently in paid work but has had a job in the last 12 months or has retired in the last 12 months, please use the person’s last occupation.
If the person has not been in paid work in the last 12 months, enter ‘Group 8’ in the box below.