New South Wales Department of Education and Training

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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]

1 Structure
2 References
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Structure

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

With a budget of more than AU$7 billion, over 2200 schools and total enrollments of almost 800,000 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 also runs one of the largest IT wide area networks in the world.