Department of Education

Corporate Services
Performance measure 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11
Unplanned staff absences 2.8% 3.0% 2.8%
Separation rates for staff aged under 55 years:
Tasmanian State Service Award (TSSA) general 3.5% 1.5% 2.3%
Education facility attendant 1.2% 1.5% 0.9%
Teaching service 1.2% 0.6% 0.7%
Teacher aide 1.5% 1.1% 1.3%
TSSA professional 4.0% 4 3.8% 2.6%
Allied health 6.0% 4 3.6% 4.3%
SES 4.6%
Average 1.8% 1.0% 1.1%
Access to internet-connected computers in classrooms (number of students
per computer):
Primary schools 3.8 3.5 3.2
Secondary schools 2.6 2.2 1.5
Combined schools 2.7 2.3 2.2
Colleges 4.7 3.3 2.6
Special schools 4.0 3.9 2.4
Government expenditure ($) per student (FTE) in government schools 5 13,258 6 N/A 7 N/A 8
1 Due to the implementation of the Tasmanian Academy and the Tasmanian Polytechnic in 2009, colleges who were previously included in the
Parent Opinion Survey were omitted from the 2009 and 2010 data collection.
2 As secondary school students are not organised into single classes which exclusively undertake a complete education program, the department
has adopted English class size as a proxy measure.
3 This index is the slope measuring the effect of socioeconomic status on literacy and numeracy scores. A smaller value denotes greater equity.
Reference values are related to national data from NAPLAN, and to data from PISA, an international education project.
4 Allied health employees (social workers and speech pathologists) were included in the professional category in previous years. Due to the TSSA,
they are now reported separately. TSSA professional includes librarians, curators and archivists.
5 Includes notional user cost of capital and payroll tax. Excludes capital investing cost.
6 Productivity Commission, Report on Government Services 2011, Table 4A.8.
7 Department of Education interim figure, unpublished data.
8 This figure was unavailable at the time of publication.
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