NSW Premier Chris Minns has congratulated 12 months 12 college students on their “doggedness and willpower” for finishing the HSC after the disruption attributable to the Covid-19 pandemic, whereas additionally reassuring college students who didn’t get the marks they wished the “world is your oyster”.
Minns visited Blakehurst Excessive Faculty in Sydney’s south immediately following the discharge of HSC outcomes.
NSW Premier Chris Minns wouldn’t reveal his HSC outcomes from 1997, however his recommendation to college students uncertain on what to do subsequent was: ‘take your time’.Credit score: Dion Georgopoulos
He stated the 69,000 college students throughout NSW who accomplished the HSC in 2023 deserved “an infinite spherical of applause and credit score” for sticking with their education by the pandemic.
“We’re very pleased with these college students specifically for one huge purpose, that’s that they needed to battle to get excellent leads to their HSC proper by the COVID pandemic,” he stated. “A lot of their education was spent at residence studying remotely, they usually caught with it and that doggedness and willpower, whereas disruptive whereas they had been enterprise their HSC, I feel will stand them in good stead as they depart their colleges … as a result of resilience and grit are half and parcel of being profitable in life.”
Minns – who wouldn’t reveal his personal HSC leads to 1997, saying solely that he remembered being “fairly completely happy, completely happy that it was over primarily” –despatched a specific message to college students who didn’t obtain the outcomes they wished.
“The world is your oyster, there are such a lot of methods to attain what you need in life,” he stated. “I feel an enormous message out of immediately is that in the event you’re a bit deflated, in the event you didn’t get the mark that you just hoped for, belief me, I promise you there are such a lot of pathways to success. And significantly in a rustic like Australia, the sky’s the restrict.”
He stated his recommendation for college students undecided what to do subsequent was to “take your time”.