The New South Wales Department of Education and Training (DET) is a department of the Government of New South Wales with responsibility for primary schools, secondary schools and Technical and Further Education (TAFE) colleges. In addition, the department oversees the provision of pre-school, adult, migrant and higher education in the state.

The Department's powers are principally drawn from the NSW Education Act 1990.^[1]

Structure

The Department reports to New South Wales Minister for Education and Training is Verity Firth. The head of the Department is its Director-General, Michael Coutts-Trotter.

With a budget of more than AU$8 billion, over 2240 schools and 130 TAFE campuses with a total enrollments of almost 1 million students, the department claims to be "the largest single organisation, public or private, in Australia." DET spends roughly one quarter of the State's total budget each year. The DET is one of the biggest school systems in the world and the largest in the southern hemisphere. It runs one of the largest IT wide area networks in the world servicing over 200,000 individual logons per school day.

See also

• Department of Education Building

References

1. ^ "NSW Education Act 1990". Parliament of New South Wales (1990). Retrieved on 2007-05-06.

External links

• NSW Department of Education and Training Home Page
• NSW Public Schools Home Page
• NSW TAFE Home page

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