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Milli Coburn was Victoria’s top-scoring Australian politics scholar final 12 months, receiving a examine rating of 49 out of fifty. She studied the topic on-line at Digital Faculty Victoria as her residence college didn’t supply it.
Now finding out economics at college, Milli has just a few theories on why the topic isn’t in style.
“It’s fairly a demanding topic. Simply understanding the programs, the nitty-gritty, it’s rather a lot,” she mentioned. “It’s not at all times essentially the most enjoyable to review, and on prime of that, you need to hold updated with what’s happening and have your modern-day examples.”
Nonetheless, Milli cherished the topic.
“What I really learnt within the course shall be related for the remainder of my life, to the voting selections I make and the best way I perceive the information and what’s happening in politics.”
Xavier Faculty instructor Julian Dowse has 18 college students in his Australian politics class this 12 months.
“I don’t need individuals to finish up like me, immersed in all of it their lives, however simply have the working information of the Home of Representatives and the Senate and what’s a state election, and why we have now a state and a federal election,” he mentioned.
VCE Australian politics instructor Julian Dowse.Credit score:Scott McNaughton
“It appears paradoxical that with tens of hundreds of [VCE] college students, you possibly can’t examine in 12 months 11 and 12 the politics of your nation.
“And other people would possibly say, ‘Properly, you possibly can study sufficient in years 7, 8, 9 and 10, so long as you’ve got a fundamental understanding.’ However all of the analysis reveals us that folks don’t have that fundamental understanding.”
There was a significant evaluate of the topic by the Victorian Curriculum Evaluation Authority final 12 months and a brand new examine design is scheduled for launch quickly.
The VCAA didn’t reply to requests for remark.
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