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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I have been approached to post the
information below on the IPM list for open discussion / comments. Any
comments posted in open forum I am happy to forward to Catherine.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">At Trafalgar the numbers of
students choosing IT are definitely lower than in the past, as I have previously
stated in list discussions. Next year for the first time I will be running a
combined class as the number choosing Units 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 were not
sufficient for a stand alone in each area. Doing the math, the take up
for IPM here is less then 1% and Systems roughly 2% next
year. That figure breaks down to about equal male and female in IPM and in
Systems all but one student is male.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Margaret Fusinato</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi Margaret,</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I thought I would enlist some help
from you. The first area is VCE IPM and IS enrolment statistics/proportions. I
want to indicate the proportion of students who study these subjects. I have
searched the VCAA website and found the 2004 stats, which are fine, and am
looking just at unit 4 enrolments.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">According to this site (<A
href="http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/statistics/2004/statssect1.print.html">http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/statistics/2004/statssect1.print.html</A>)
in Table 1.2 Unit results by gender and level 2004, there were 126,119 males who
completed unit 4 VCE subjects, and 144,124 females.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Then on the same site, in the
individual subject unit completion outcomes, we have 2222 males who completed
the IS subject, and only 176 females, and in IPM 4933 males and 2384
females.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Using my calculator that means that
only 1.8% of males in the state completed IS, and 0.1% of the
females.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">IPM is slightly better, with 4% of
all VCE males and 1.7% of females.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Does that seem correct? Do you (or
the VCE coordinator) get any report on where each subject sits on proportional
enrolments?</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It is very low. </SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Feel free to post my query on your
teacher discussion board. I would benefit from some ‘on the ground’
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