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Rural and Remote Education - Victoria

Rural

and Remote Education - Victoria

Public hearing in Melbourne,

12 November 1999

Witnesses giving

evidence in Melbourne were

  1. Rob Collins (in-coming

    Chairman), Al Balfour (out-going Chairman), Ian Rogerson, Esme White,

    Laurie Bester, Bob Craig, COUNTRY EDUCATION PROJECT: Country Education

    Project; declining school populations; curriculum offerings at Years

    11 and 12; disability; Indigenous students; funding formulae; transport;

    professional development; cost of technology; staffing; arts and cultural

    programs; teacher contracts; housing subsidies; CEP membership; teacher

    incentives; minimum school population size

  2. Sharan Burrow,

    President, and Roy Martin, National Research Officer, AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION

    UNION: Decline of public education; funding as a percentage of GDP;

    on-line curriculum; early childhood education; educational outcomes

    and employment; Country Areas Program funding allocation; teacher salaries;

    Disadvantaged Area Program; Aboriginal and Islander Education Workers;

    merit selection; technology; Country Areas Program; incentive packages;

    teacher training; cross system cooperation; human rights education

  3. Don Tyrer (General

    Manager of School Programs Division and General Manager of Western Metropolitan

    Region) and Ken Peak (Senior Project Officer School Programs Division),

    DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING VICTORIA: Provision

    of schools in Victoria; cross system collaboration; demographics; Indigenous

    students; students and disabilities; technological infrastructure; exit

    plans for students; scholarships for trainee teachers; curriculum review;

    technology; isolated children; on-line mentors; The Virtual School;

    cost of technology; bandwidth; technology in the home; teacher incentives;

    Indigenous cultural awareness training; Indigenous curricula; Indigenous

    Educators; transport; TAFE in schools

  4. Ed Carmody (Bus

    Coordinator, Sale Diocese, Catholic Education Office) CATHOLIC EDUCATION

    OFFICE: Transport policy; Conveyance Allowance; transport; cost of buses;

    teacher incentives; cross system collaboration

  5. Adrienne Jericho

    (National Director for Lutheran Schools), Alan Wiebusch (Director for

    Lutheran Schools South East Region) and John Brew-Bevan (School Principal),

    NATIONAL LUTHERAN SCHOOLS OFFICE: Lutheran schools; cross system collaboration;

    professional development; transport; non-government curriculum and funding;

    cross border issues; boarding students; Lutheran student population;

    Indigenous students; distance education; information technology; funding

    of independent schools

  6. Sue Pringle (Coordinator,

    Robyn Raine (Member), Kerry Kerschat (Special Needs Support Group) and

    Annette Dendle (Member), COOINDA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP: Disability; curriculum

    options for children with disabilities; disability training for teachers;

    children with disabilities from Defence Force families; access to disability

    support and resources; disability guidelines; disability and sport;

    training of Integration Aides; duty of care; teacher turnover; cost

    of internet access; disability training and education; specialists;

    parents of children with disabilities; school support for the child

    with a disability; transition from primary school to high school for

    children with disabilities; disability and excursions; cross border

    transport

  7. David Curtis (Commissioner

    for the Central Zone, NT, and Education and Training Commissioner),

    Lewis Hawke (Assistant General Manager of Commercial Branch), Chris

    Sadleir (Economic Policy Section), ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER

    COMMISSION: Indigenous demographics; Indigenous education and employment;

    Indigenous children and remoteness; Indigenous non-completion rates

    for school children; three steps to progress in Indigenous education;

    ATSIC recommendations for education; secondary schooling for Indigenous

    children; school attendance of Indigenous children; Aboriginal and Islander

    Education Workers; racism in schools; Aboriginal language programs;

    self-determination and language learning; de facto segregation in schools

  8. Lynne Rolley (Federal

    Secretary),Tony Keenan (Assistant Secretary Victorian Branch), Frances

    Renehan (Teacher, Catholic Regional College, Traralgon), INDEPENDENT

    EDUCATION UNION, FEDERAL AND VICTORIAN BRANCHES: Recommendations to

    HREOC; blanket exemptions from anti-discrimination legislation in non-government

    schools; need for partnerships between schools, TAFE and universities;

    partnerships between government and non-government schools; criteria

    for the establishment of non-government schools; local community education

    planning bodies; National Schools Network; teacher recruitment and retention;

    Indigenous education; technology and infrastructure; permanency and

    contracts

  9. David Dyer, Inquiry

    Panel Member, PEOPLE TOGETHER PROJECT: People Together Inquiry; resource

    provision to schools; self-governing schools; absenteeism and non-enrolment;

    students with special needs; the importance of education; absenteeism;

    class sizes

  10. George Mudoch

    and Bob Howey, NATIONAL VOLUNTEERS FOR ISOLATED STUDENTS' EDUCATION

    (VISE): Volunteers for Isolated Students' Education; local education

    goals; Internet to the Outback; information technology infrastructure;

    internet costs

  11. Jeanette Wilson

    (Executive Secretary) and Rob Carolane (State Management Committee Member,

    also a member of the CEP Management Committee): VICTORIAN COUNCIL OF

    SCHOOL ORGANISATIONS: Victorian Council of School Organisations; closure

    of schools; community based education; school fees and costs; professional

    development; cost of internet access; transport and disability

  12. Mark Prest (Deputy

    Principal, Mount Lilydale College), John Amore (Member), Maggie Westlake

    (Member), YARRA VALLEY SCHOOL BUS ACTION GROUP: Transport for non-government

    school students

  13. Denise Donnan,

    VICTORIAN FEDERATION OF STATE SCHOOL PARENTS' CLUBS INC: Transport;

    specialist support services; curriculum; income support; education funding;

    specialist teachers; information technology; Conveyance Allowance; Education

    Maintenance Allowance; parent involvement

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