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Determining students' eligibility for language courses
The Office of the Board of Studies will continue its languages eligibility monitoring program in 2010. Schools participating in the 2010 program will be notified in Term 4, 2009.
The purpose of the program is to monitor the implementation of the Board's policies in relation to the eligibility criteria for Beginners languages courses and Continuers courses in languages where there are Background Speakers courses.
In Term 2 of 2009 the monitoring program was conducted with several government and non-government schools. The following were identified as 'best practice' in implementing the Board's policies. Schools should consider adopting these practices to ensure they have effective procedures for determining a student's eligibility to undertake a Beginners course or a Continuers course in a language that has a Background Speakers course.