The School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) is the statutory authority responsible for the development and accreditation of courses and the standards, assessment and certification of student achievement.

The Authority gathers a range of information through monitoring the implementation of its courses. This involves:

• analysis of enrolment and completion data
• consideration of issues identified in school moderation processes
• analysis of trends in external assessment results
• interaction with teachers and liaison with subject associations that contribute practitioner views
• input from the Authority’s Curriculum Advisory Committees (CACs), key stakeholders and representative groups
• outcomes of focus groups or consultation meetings.

The information gathered during this monitoring period, provides the basis for the Authority to identify courses to be reviewed. The review of a course may result in no change, minor, moderate or major revisions to the course syllabus/es.

The Authority’s Board approved the following senior secondary courses to commence syllabus review in 2023:

• Years 11 and 12 Chinese: Second Language ATAR
• Years 11 and 12 Chinese: First Language ATAR
• Years 11 and 12 French: Second Language ATAR
• Years 11 and 12 French: Background Language ATAR
• Years 11 and 12 German: Second Language ATAR
• Years 11 and 12 German: Background Language ATAR
• Years 11 and 12 Indonesian: Second Language ATAR
• Years 11 and 12 Italian: Second Language ATAR
• Years 11 and 12 Italian: Background Language ATAR
• Years 11 and 12 Japanese: Second Language ATAR
• Years 11 and 12 Career and Enterprise General
• Years 11 and 12 Dance ATAR
• Years 11 and 12 Drama General
• Years 11 and 12 Media Production and Analysis General
• Years 11 and 12 Music General
• Years 11 and 12 Design General.

Updates about the review of these course syllabuses will be communicated via the Authority's 11to12 Circular. Further information is also available on the relevant course page.