Public hearing in Canberra - 26 October 1999
Witnesses giving evidence in Canberra were
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Barbara Preston,
Executive Officer, AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL OF DEANS OF EDUCATION: Teacher
supply and demand; staff recruitment and incentives; teacher education
- 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
- 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
