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The Correspondence School, Melbourne is the only state high school in Victoria which provides distance teaching to a diversity of students at the secondary level. In the secondary section of the Correspondence School. with which this paper is concerned, approximately 4500 students are enrolled this year. A majority of these students (approximately 3000) are enrolled at state high schools or independent schools, and do one or two subjects at the Correspondence School. However, there are approximately 1500 students each year who enrol with the Correspondence School only. These include adult students, travellers, itinerant workers, overseas and remote students, members of services and students referred to the school because they are unable to attend a school for a variety of reasons (medical, psychological, etc).