Maximising chances for all students

Best service from a statewide system...Brian Evans.

The transfer system does more than anything else except curriculum to maximise the chance that students across the state have access to the same range of learning experiences, the same good ideas, a huge pool of corporate experience, built up by staff who have worked across the breadth of communities in the state, Braidwood Central School head teacher Brian Evans said.

"NSW is a large and diverse state, and the statewide transfer system provides much more equity of access for students, to a full range of teachers," he said.

"Teachers have mobility across the state, and therefore help to gather experiences from a range of schools for their career, and to the students they currently teach.

"Schools also cross-fertilise each other.

"Ideas that are tested in one school to work are moved around the state with teachers as they transfer.

"The current system is not doing an adequate job of staffing in some very remote communities, but students across NSW will still get the best service from a statewide system," he said.

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