The Australian Student Prize (formerly the ''
Lord Florey Student Prize'') was an
Australian Government
The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Like other Westminster-style systems of government, the Australian Government ...
prize
A prize is an award to be given to a person or a group of people (such as sporting teams and organizations) to recognize and reward their actions and achievements. that was awarded annually from 1991 to 2014, to give "national recognition to academic excellence and achievement in secondary education". Five hundred students received the award each year, which consisted of a certificate and cash prize. The cash prize was
A$2000 until 2014, when the prize was reduced to $1000. The prize is no longer awarded as of 2015.
Each
State and Territory Minister for Education nominated a number of students (according to the state or territory's proportion of
year 12 students) for the prize each year. Medallists from Australia's teams in the
International Biology,
Chemistry,
Informatics,
Mathematics and
Physics Olympiads also received the Australian Student Prize.
Prize winners were announced in the year following their completion of
high school
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...
, generally in June. Names were printed in various newspapers across Australia, and were posted on th
prize's website where a list of past winners is still available.
References
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Website
Australian Student Prize
Student awards
Secondary education
1991 establishments in Australia
Awards established in 1991
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