Introduction

Elizabeth College is a public school of approximately 1100 student

Student

A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English...

s, run by the Tasmanian Department of Education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

. It caters to students in years 11 and 12, but there are also older enrolments.

Campus

Elizabeth College is situated near to the centre of Hobart, occupying most of the block between Elizabeth Street, Warwick Street, Murray Street and Tasma Street. The campus is composed of seven large buildings, along with a number of smaller buildings for other facilities.

Subjects

Many subjects are taught at Elizabeth College. The curriculum

Curriculum

See also Syllabus.In formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults...

 of these subjects is maintained by the Tasmanian Department of Education. Courses can be categorised by level. From a college perspective, level 1 represents an elementary course for a given subject, level 2 represents a more advanced course and level 3 represents a pre-tertiary course.

Students are able to enroll in whichever subjects they desire. There is no minimum number of subjects to be taken, though students requesting financial support

Scholarship

A scholarship is an award of financial aid for a student to further education. Scholarships are awarded on various criteria usually reflecting the values and purposes of the donor or founder of the award.-Types:...

 from the Government will require a full-time workload.

Pre-Tertiary Subjects

A student can use the results from their pre-tertiary

Tertiary

The Tertiary is a deprecated term for a geologic period 65 million to 2.6 million years ago. The Tertiary covered the time span between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary...

 courses to qualify for tertiary level education, such as university

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

. Students who want to attend university will have their tertiary entrance (TE) score taken by the sum of points gained from two pre-tertiary courses in year 11 and three in year 12.

Facilities

There are many facilities available at the College. There is a large library, which doubles as a study area, a gymnasium and many computer

Computer

A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...

 laboratories. These are used extensively and are often required for coursework.

Extra facilities include a weights training room and Student Services. Several staff are based in Student Services, including the chaplain

Chaplain

Traditionally, a chaplain is a minister in a specialized setting such as a priest, pastor, rabbi, or imam or lay representative of a religion attached to a secular institution such as a hospital, prison, military unit, police department, university, or private chapel...

, the security officer, counsellors, the college police officer and the college dog

Dog

The domestic dog is a domesticated form of the gray wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties. The dog may have been the first animal to be domesticated, and has been the most widely kept working, hunting, and companion animal in...

, named Astro. There is also a large canteen and common room area, which services many students.

International Co-operation

Elizabeth College has ties across the world, including China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

 and Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. Every year, there is a school trip organised to both China and Japan.

Elizabeth College has a sister school in Hiroshima

Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...

, Japan called Inokuchi Senior High and in China called Quanzhou Foreign Language School. There are cultural exchanges to both of these schools on an annual and biannual bases and the schools visit the college.