Starting School

This guide for parents and carers has useful and important information for preparing your son or daughter as they embark on, and throughout, their formal schooling. This booklet also contains a list of helpful websites and contact numbers should you require further information. More...

Financial Assistance for Families

Parents and carers seeking assistance with the financial costs of schooling are encouraged to discuss with their school principal the assistance that may be available to them. More...

Schools Infrastructure Refurbishment Program

The five year Schools Infrastructure Refurbishment program was completed in 2011. In conjunction with capital upgrade works and new facilities, a total of $162.1 million was allocated to improving the facilities at ACT public schools. The list of schools and completed works and projects is attached. More...

The options for the future collaborations between Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) and University of Canberra (UC)

A Report to the ACT Government by Emeritus Professor Denise Bradley, AC

The ACT Tertiary Taskforce and The Hawke Review recommended closer collaboration between and amalgamation of UC and CIT. The ACT Government commissioned Professor Bradley to report on future options for the institutions. In preparing her report, Professor Bradley met with senior executives and staff of both CIT and UC and considered extensive information provided by the institutions. Her report also draws on her extensive professional knowledge of the national tertiary sector and its reform context.. More...

Excellence and Enterprise: Advancing Public Schools of Distinction

Excellence and Enterprise: Advancing Public Schools of Distinction represents a strategic approach to the enhancement of public secondary schooling in the ACT. It provides a framework for transforming ACT public schools and colleges in ways that will significantly improve all students' access to, engagement with and success in learning. The report contains 11 key directions organised under three broad themes, providing a framework that will guide short, medium and long term decision making for secondary education in the Territory. More..

Enrolling in an ACT public school for 2012

Full details about how to enrol in an ACT public school are now available. School open night details are available so that parents and students can visit schools prior to enrolment to learn more about specific programs and services. Public schools have a defined priority enrolment area to ensure children living in the local area are able to gain a place at the school. Every public school reserves enough places within their school for students in their local enrolment area. Parents are able to apply to enrol their child at a school outside their local area. These applications are considered according to the department's policy. ACT public schools can help parents, carers and senior students with all your enrolment enquiries. More..