Editing South Australia (section)

==Education==
{{See also|Education in South Australia}}

===Primary and secondary===
{{See also|List of schools in South Australia}}

On 1 January 2009, the school leaving age was raised to 17 (having previously been 15 and then 16).<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19215505-1246,00.html |access-date=28 May 2006 |publisher=[[News Corp (2013–present)|News Corp]] |work=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] |date=22 May 2006 |title=School leaving age to be raised |first=Michael |last=Owen |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070914172408/http://www.news.com.au/story/0%2C10117%2C19215505-1246%2C00.html |archive-date=14 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Education is compulsory for all children until age 17, unless they are working or undergoing other training. The majority of students stay on to complete their [[South Australian Certificate of Education]] (SACE). School education is the responsibility of the South Australian government, but the public and private education systems are funded jointly by it and the [[Government of Australia|Commonwealth Government]].

The South Australian Government provides, to schools on a per student basis, 89% of the total Government funding while the Commonwealth contributes 11%. Since the early 1970s, it has been an ongoing controversy<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aeufederal.org.au/Debates/ReidPaper.html |title = The Redefinition of Public Education |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080215174248/http://www.aeufederal.org.au/Debates/ReidPaper.html |archive-date = 15 February 2008 |access-date =12 July 2010}}</ref> that 68% of Commonwealth funding (increasing to 75% by 2008) goes to private schools that are attended by 32% of the states students.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cms.curriculum.edu.au/anr2008/ch2_student.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016092136/http://cms.curriculum.edu.au/anr2008/ch2_student.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 October 2013 |work=Ministerial Council National Report on Schooling in Australia |title=Chapter 2: Resourcing Australia's schools }}</ref> Private schools often counter this by saying that they receive less State Government funding than public schools, and in 2004 the main private school funding came from the Australian government, not the state government.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2119 |title=Government funding should encourage private schools not penalise them |author=Bill Daniels |date=12 April 2004 |access-date=16 February 2010}}</ref>

On 14 June 2013, South Australia became the third Australian state to sign up to the Australian Federal Government's [[Gonski Report#Education|Gonski Reform Program]]. This will see funding for primary and secondary education to South Australia increased by $1.1&nbsp;billion before 2019.<ref>{{cite web|title=South Australia signs up to Federal Government's Gonski education reforms|website=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-14/sa-signs-up-to-gonski-education-reforms/4753742|date=14 June 2013}}</ref>

The academic year in South Australia generally runs from the end of January until mid-December for primary and secondary schools. The SA schools operate on a four-term basis. Schools are closed for the South Australia public holidays.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SA School Holidays, Public Holidays & School Terms 2022 - 2023 |url=https://schoolholidays.com.au/school-holiday-dates-in-sa |access-date=12 March 2022 |website=School Holidays |language=en}}</ref>

===Tertiary===

[[File:Adelaideunientrance.jpg|right|upright=1.15|thumb|[[University of Adelaide]]]]
There are three public and four private universities in South Australia. The three public universities are the [[University of Adelaide]] (established 1874, third oldest in Australia), [[Flinders University]] (est. 1966) and the [[University of South Australia]] (est. 1991). The four private universities are [[Torrens University Australia]] (est. 2013), [[Carnegie Mellon University - Australia]] (est. 2006), [[University College London]]'s School of Energy and Resources (Australia), and [[Cranfield University]]. All six have their main campus in the Adelaide metropolitan area: Adelaide and UniSA on [[North Terrace, Adelaide|North Terrace]] in the [[Adelaide city centre|city]]; CMU, UCL and Cranfield are co-located on [[Victoria Square, Adelaide|Victoria Square]] in the city, and Flinders at [[Bedford Park, South Australia|Bedford Park]].

The University of Adelaide is part of the Group of Eight, a company of Australia's eight leading research universities.<ref name="guide to universities">{{cite web|url=https://insiderguides.com.au/universities-in-adelaide/|title=A Guide to Universities in Adelaide|last=Craddock|first=Alex|date=30 September 2019|access-date=14 October 2022|website=Insider Guides}}</ref> As of 2022, it is ranked by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings as one of the top 100 universities in the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-12/times-higher-education-world-university-rankings-list-australian/101529166|title=What's the best university in the world? What's the best Australian uni? Here's what the World University Rankings list says|date=12 October 2022|access-date=14 October 2022|website=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]]}}</ref> It was the first university in Australia to admit women to academic courses, doing so in 1881.<ref name="guide to universities"/> In 2018, the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia announced plans to merge, but these plans did not at that time come to fruition due in part to disagreements over what to name the new university and which of the university's vice-chancellors would become the vice-chancellor of the amalgamated university. The two institutions have since agreed merger terms.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-21/documents-shed-light-on-university-of-adelaide-sa-failed-merger/12960276|title=University of Adelaide, UniSA merger proposal failed after uncertainty over name and leadership|last=Siebert|first=Bension|website=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |date=21 January 2021|access-date=14 October 2022}}</ref>

====Vocational education====
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Tertiary vocational education is provided by a range of Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) which are regulated at Commonwealth level. The range of RTOs delivering education include public, private and 'enterprise' providers i.e. employing organisations who run an RTO for their own employees or members.

The largest public provider of vocational education is [[TAFE South Australia]] which is made up of colleges throughout the state, many of these in rural areas, providing tertiary education to as many people as possible. In South Australia, TAFE is funded by the [[Government of South Australia|state government]] and run by the South Australian [[Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology]] (DFEEST). Each TAFE SA campus provides a range of courses with its own specialisation.