recommendations of the Wyndham Committee report of 1957. The Wyndham recommendations included the automatic transition of all students from primary to secondary school; the provision of a ‘core’ curriculum with increasing electives across the first four years of secondary school; the possibility of students undertaking courses leading to a Higher School Certificate (HSC) examination, the type and content of which ‘should be such as to make it acceptable as a test for university matriculation’; and the establishment of an independent board with authority for the development of HSC courses, the conduct of HSC examinations, and the issuing of certificates.