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While usually not called clerical, most schools in fact offer clerical courses like typing (now called "key boarding") and shorthand. Often they are grouped with other courses. Many schools combined clerical courses with economics for a "commercial". The term clerical is avoided, presumably because boys are not interested and most modern girls are shooting their sights higher.

Here are some representative courses a school might offer in the different year level

Year 9

Typ 31: Keyboarding

Entry Requirements: Nil

Cost: Nil

Purpose: To enable students to develop the skills necessary to operate a keyboani efficiently and correctly for further typing or computing.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module students should be able to:

• Develop finger placement and finger movement techniques.
• Develop simple display techniques.
• Type simple paragraphs reasonably accurately.
• Locate their own errors

Content: Mastery of key board, including functions. Yyping ot simple paragraphs. Centreing. Pivoting. Simple tabulation.

Sht 31: Shorthand

Entry Requirements: Nil

Cost: Nil

Purpose: jo expose students to shorthand to develop their skills in shorthand writing and transcription.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module students should be able to:

• Write elementary shorthand outlines clearly
• Read elementary shorthand outlines.
• Iranscrbe elementary shorthand.

Content: Learning shorthand strokes, vowels. short forms and phrases

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