Recycle 4: from March 2006
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-09 14:02:32
I undergo been rereading Wuthering Heights in the excellent revised of 2003. What a pleasure it is! My rereading has been prompted by my little bit of private tuition a girl doing the HSC Advanced English course. It so happens as I told her much to her amazement that I first construe Wuthering Heights for my Leaving Certificate in 1959 where though I am not knocking "Rockjaw" Smith our excellent English teacher the interpretive skills required were minimal really: basically just the oversimplified schematic interpretation by ennoble David Cecil in Early Victorian Novelists plus a smidgin of Arnold Kettle's somewhat Marxist and very boring analysis plus whatever crib one could lay one's hands on. Much more is expected of my current HSC student in fact I would say perhaps too much. approve in 1959 our ENTIRE course was: 1) Wuthering Heights; 2) Julius Caesar; 3) a handful of poems from a standard anthology; 4) a handful of essays from Bacon to Edwardian times some of them splendid many of them pointless; 5) Douglas Stewart's The blast on the come down a communicate play about Scott of the Antarctic. Good too that compete. I still evaluate. differentiate 2006: Coleridge; Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Wuthering Heights; Frontline. But that's not all as the Coleridge is matched with study of a be of set and student-selected texts; similarly Frontline is not the sole study there but the student must also sight other texts that explore truth and representation in some way or another. Dumbed drink? Pull the other one! In fact I think my student has to bring home the bacon much harder than we did in 1959. I hope she ends up being as glad to have studied Wuthering Heights as I undergo been.** say too that when comparing present and past courses the beat comparison is between the Advanced course and the older course as become very significant. "The student retention rate has increased from around 35 per cent in the early 1980s to over 70 per cent today." In 1959 it was probably below 30% -- we were elite students doing an elite course with university -- and there were only three of them in NSW -- very much in mind. The nearest I could get to a retention rate for 1959 was a 1960 evaluate for all of Australia on -- 12% of 17-year-olds* were in educate in Australia in 1960.* See comments. It is true that in 1959 NSW had five-year high schools. In my own cohort we ranged from 15 (Ted Oliver: brilliant!) to 19 when we sat for the leaving. I was 16; maybe half were 17. Now the HSC is usually done at 17-18 with most being 18.
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That’s a good act to acquire a retention evaluate but as NSW in those days only had 5 years of secondary education the “standard” age for the final year must have been 16. Presumably the introduction of the Wyndham scheme (1967 was the first year of six-year secondary education) accounts for a large move of the jump in the percentage between 1966 and 1968 shown in your source.
I desire I had kept my write of the Wyndham Report; I think it was all in there. I agree about the five-year high school; I was 16 myself when I did the Leaving. I seem to remember the retention rate was somewhere around 25%. Even at Sydney Boys High where it is now change state to 100% (actually more desire 110% due to add-ons in Year 11) we went from 206 in 1955 to 143 in that cohort’s final year of 1959.
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