Did Not Score In Top 10%

Defined Terms and Documents 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' RTV Social Inclusion Early Intervention Programme

Did Not Score In top 10% In Numeracy, Literacy And English Writing Test means the 140 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students who live in the Six Regional Townships which are drawn to fill Ten Regional Township Teams (eg 'Team Darwin', 'Team Palmerston', 'Team Katherine', 'Team Alice Springs' , 'Team 'Arnhem', 'Team Barkly') which each comprise 14 Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students will not score in the top 10% in their Numeracy, Literacy And English Writing Test after Submitting An On-Line Application Form on the Teenager Life Skills Website.

Purists may view this as discrimination against better educated Year 9 Aboriginal Student Applicants.

The 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' RTV Programme seeks to provide Social Inclusion to Australians who have been less fortunate. Year 9 Aboriginal Student Applicants who Did Not Score In Top 10% In Numeracy, Literacy And English Writing Test are less fortunate.

The below extract from Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students explains that scope exists for twenty or so Year 9 Aboriginal Student Applicants that scored in the top 10% in their Numeracy, Literacy And English Writing Tests and was deemed by the 6 x Year 9 Applicant Interviewers to be receiving reasonable mentoring and guidance from their family, with at least one parent holding a tertiary qualification or trade licence, and in regular employment would be invited to receive 5 working days Work Experience (during school holidays) in the Work Experience Provider's office, or at a 'site location' such as a mining site or construction site, and be billeted at the Work Experience Provider's home for up to 8 nights from a Saturday to and including the following Saturday during the Third RTV Year when the Work Experience Recipient is a Year 11 student:

"Re 1. further above, Work Experience Recipient and Employee Work Experience Providers each note that any of the twenty or so Year 9 Aboriginal Student Applicants that a Year 9 Applicant Interviewer met with for at least 25 mins (by the start of the First RTV Year) during the particular Year 9 Applicant Interview across all of the Six Regional Townships and -

c) was not chosen to be one of 140 x Accepted Year 9 Aboriginal Students because the Year 9 Student Applicant scored in the top 10% in their Numeracy, Literacy And English Writing Tests and was deemed by the 6 x Year 9 Applicant Interviewers to be receiving reasonable mentoring and guidance from their family, with at least one parent holding a tertiary qualification or trade licence, and in regular employment; and

d) passed their School Certificate and has continued on to Year 11 intent upon gaining their Higher School Certificate and has displayed some interest in the particular industry that the Work Experience Provider is employed with one of the Ten Corporate Sponsors,

would be invited to receive 5 working days Work Experience (during school holidays) in the Work Experience Provider's office, or at a 'site location' such as a mining site or construction site, and be billeted at the Work Experience Provider's home for up to 8 nights from a Saturday to and including the following Saturday during the Third RTV Year when the Work Experience Recipient is a Year 11 student."