Rural and Remote Education - NSW

Rural

and Remote Education - NSW

Public hearing in Sydney,

22 October 1999

Witnesses giving

evidence in Sydney were

1. Deborah Knight,

   Director, Dalwood Assessment Centre: Dalwood clients; assessment;

   services; outreach program; residential program; language and literacy;

   support to rural staff; financial constraints; disability assessment

   in rural schools; ethnicity of clients; assistance from hospitals; other

   remedial and assessment services

2. John Sutton, Assistant

   Director-General (Primary Education), George Green, Assistant Director-General

   (Student Services and Equity Programs) and Dr Alan Rice, Executive Director

   (Early Childhood and Primary Education), Department of Education

   and Training: Schools for specific purposes; access scholarships;

   distance education; staffing formulae; senior secondary clusters; satellite

   trial; improving teaching and learning quality; literacy strategy; Basic

   Skills Test; Reading Recovery; equity programs; compensating for remoteness;

   Disadvantaged Schools Program; programs for students with disabilities;

   Indigenous students; teaching Aboriginal languages and history; school

   non-participation - Moree; history teaching; Wilcannia; Indigenous education;

   school-community collaboration; school-work transition for Aboriginal

   students; parental involvement; race relations; gay and lesbian students;

   education funding; otitis media; staff incentives; relief teachers;

   professional development; cross-sectoral co-operation; TAFE access;

   students with disabilities; fees

3. Edna McGill and

   Enza Di Stefano, Ethnic Communities Council: Role of ECC; rural

   disadvantage; literacy program; technology; community relations; rural

   funding and service formulae; education funding; education administration;

   rural NESB students; Moree example; distance education; disadvantaged

   schools program; alternative schooling; ethnicity of teachers

4. Chris Watt and

   Diet Calliope, New South Wales-ACT Independent Education Union:

   IEU membership; teacher recruitment; pre-service training; staff accommodation;

   professional development; subject choice; staff transfer opportunities;

   salary and conditions; staff incentives; Catholic school funding; female

   staff; rural social issues; Internet access; recommendations; Indigenous

   education workers

5. Ben Folino Policy

   Officer, and Megan Sweeney, parent, Disability Council of NSW:

   Right to integration; funding for integration; disability discrimination;

   staff training needs and expectations; industrial issues; Wagga experience;

   health services; intellectual and physical disabilities compared

6. Professor John

   Lester, Aboriginal Education Consultative Group: Community relations;

   rural social issues; cultural immersion; Aboriginal English; pedagogy;

   Aboriginal Studies; mobility; teacher expectations; funding for Aboriginal

   education; Indigenous staff; technology; distance education; evaluation;

   staff attitudes; consultation; best practice models

7. Belinda Epstein-Frisch,

   Institute for Family Advocacy and Leadership Development: Role

   of Family Advocacy; students with disabilities; policy of inclusion

   - international framework; barriers to inclusion; resource support for

   inclusion; staff attitudes; teacher aides; specialist support; staff

   training needs; participation in excursions; Indigenous students with

   disabilities; barriers to DDA process; intellectual and physical disabilities

   compared

8. Dee Wilkes-Bose,

   Director of Rural Affairs, NSW Farmers' Association: Impacts

   of isolation; resources for rural schools; staff incentives; staffing;

   telecommunications; education costs; home tutors; travel; subsidies;

   HECS; subject choice; Youth Allowance; student options; post-school

   options; work experience; staff retention; Rural Summit

9. John Irving, Wagga

   organiser, and Wayne Patterson, Bathurst organiser, NSW Teachers'

   Federation: Teacher shortage; specialist staff recruitment; impacts

   of teacher shortage; Dubbo super-school example; technology; staff incentives;

   professional support and development; relief teachers; staffing; transfer

   destinations; integration of students with disabilities; teacher recruitment;

   rural social issues; cross-sectoral collaboration; Bathurst VET example;

   Aboriginal schools; Aboriginal Studies

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