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unusual facts about Higher School Certificate



Australian International School Hong Kong

It follows the New South Wales curriculum where final year (grade twelve) students can either pursue the Higher School Certificate of the New South Wales Board of Studies or the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (since September 2005 when it became an IB World School).

Damien Brown

Damien graduated from St. Edward's College, East Gosford in 1990 with a school certificate and Corpus Christi College (now St Peter's College), Tuggerah, with a higher school certificate in 1992.

Software Design and Development

SDD is also a subject offered to senior high school students in Australia in university entrance exams such as the Higher School Certificate and the VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education).

Susan Davies

She attended Leongatha High School (1966–70) and Watsonia High School in 1971, when she completed her Higher School Certificate.


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Joyce Aluoch

Lady Justice Aluoch attended Butere Girls' School for her Ordinary Level School Certificate and obtained her Higher School Certificate from Limuru Girls’ School.

Lars Heikensten

Heikensten passed his higher school certificate in Bromma in 1970 and spent one year in High school in Marion, Iowa, in the United States, on an AFS International Scholarship.

Mikaela Turik

Turik attended St. Luke's Grammar School, from pre-Kindergarten and in 2012 completed her Higher School Certificate, (HSC).

Raising of school leaving age

The Education Minister Carmel Tebbutt stated "all the research shows that if students either get their Higher School Certificate or an equivalent vocational qualification, then their employment opportunities in later life are far greater and so is their income-earning capacity."