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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I would just like to make a comment
regarding one of the matters listed by Michael. In 2007, 26 of 48 studies at the
score of 35 were downgraded (I excluded all the LOTEs and VCE VETs), so IT is
certainly not on its own.</span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Graham<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, 18 February 2008
12:24 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Year 12 IT Applications
Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] IT
field</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 18/02/2008, at 12:10
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>* VELS incorporating ICT
as a cross curricular domain is being used as a reason for cutting IT classes
because "other subject teachers can teach them". Some schools
redeploy IT teachers as some sort of coach/mentor but I suspect many don't = lost
positions.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>* VCE IT is on the nose
with students as the perception is that it gets marked down for their ENTER
score unlike say various Mathematics subjects. Also, it's not a prerequisite
for anything at uni unlike Maths or English. So classes get smaller and eventually
unviable which is what happened here. Negative feedback spiral some might say.</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>* Careers Coordinators
are suggesting it as an "easy" topic for students who may struggle in
other subjects, thus putting off ! the more academic students.</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>* The subject isn't as
sexy or interesting as say Art or Drama or Psych or the Science ones so again
it loses out. This one is a little subjective but the nerd^H^H^H^H more science
/ maths / IT oriented students that may choose IT are more likely to choose
Biol or Chem or Maths Methods or Specialist leaving less of a likelihood of
choosing IT for the reasons listed above.</span></font></p>
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numbers may be</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>* overlap with Business
Management - choose one or the other</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>* not seen as interesting
as year 11 or even year 10 IT, with strong emphasis on theory (Virtual teams,
Project Management, IPC, etc) rather than the development of IT skills (i.e.
less hands-on).</span></font></p>
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