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Rural and Remote Education - National

Rural

and Remote Education - National

Public hearing in

Canberra - 26 October 1999

Witnesses giving

evidence in Canberra were

  1. Wendy Craik, Executive

    Director, and Ben Fargher, Deputy Director (Rural Policy), NATIONAL

    FARMERS' FEDERATION: Rural industry: needs and opportunities; income

    support; expectations of rural students; tertiary education; specialist

    teachers - Agricultural Science; education delivery modes; information

    technology; telecommunications; vocational education

  2. Tony Greer (First

    Assistant Secretary, Schools Division), Evan Arthur (Assistant Secretary,

    Literacy and Special Programs Branch), Peter Buckskin (Assistant Secretary,

    Indigenous Education) and Diane Peacock (International Analysis and

    Evaluation Division), DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND YOUTH AFFAIRS:

    Role of DETYA; national performance indicators; Indigenous education;

    MCEETYA Task Force on Rural Education; Country Areas Program; Indigenous

    education funding; Indigenous Education Strategic Initiatives Program

    (IESIP); Assistance for Isolated Children; Quality Teacher Program;

    cross-sectoral collaboration; transport funding; defining equity; students

    with disabilities; Aboriginal and Islander Education Workers; Abstudy;

    Batchelor College; Indigenous students; Aboriginal Student Support and

    Parent Awareness (ASSPA); telecommunications; Disability Discrimination

    Act standards; MCEETYA Task Force on Staff Recruitment; teacher training;

    vocational education

  3. Mark Hogan, Assistant

    Director, CATHOLIC EDUCATION OFFICE, ARCHDIOCESE OF CANBERRA AND GOULBURN:

    Commonwealth, State and Territory funding; distance education; secondary

    school boys; cross-sectoral collaboration; Country Areas Program; staff

    recruitment; State-Territory border; Lake Cargelligo; Indigenous education

  4. Barbara Preston,

    Executive Officer, AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL OF DEANS OF EDUCATION: Teacher

    supply and demand; staff recruitment and incentives; teacher education

  5. Megan McNicholl,

    National President, and Barbara Lough, NSW President, ISOLATED CHILDREN'S

    PARENTS' ASSOCIATION: Distance education; home tutors; teacher preparation;

    professional development; curriculum; extra-curricula learning opportunities;

    Country Areas Program; boarding; tertiary education; Assistance for

    Isolated Children; boarding school staff; telecommunications; hostel

    accommodation; boarding schools; teacher incentives; teacher retention;

    expectations of rural staff

  6. Marion Kossatz,

    VOLUNTEERS FOR ISOLATED STUDENTS EDUCATION: Financial support for VISE;

    volunteer profile and commitment; experience at Oenpelli; School of

    the Air; Indigenous education; racial discrimination; Indigenous communities

    - NT; pastoral properties; internet access; experience on a pastoral

    property; rural community consultation; rural and remote funding compared;

    road access

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