Public Hearing in Perth WA - 24 May 1999
Witnesses giving evidence in Perth were:
- Derrick Tomlinson,
MLC and Chair of the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council; Peter
Browne, CEO of the Department of Education Services and also a member
of the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council; David Price, Principal
Policy Officer, Department of Education Services and Executive Officer
to the Rural and Remote Education Advisory Council and the Aboriginal
Education and Training Council: Rural student performance; Aboriginal
student performance; explaining performance difference; provision of
schools; post-school options; Rural and Remote Education and Advisory
Group; strategic plan for rural and remote students; Esperance Community
College; Central Wheatbelt review; rural teacher shortage; WA administration;
travel subsidies; Aboriginal teacher training
- Kim Collard, Aboriginal
Education Training Council; with David Price, Executive Officer: Aboriginal
Studies; Strategic Plan for Aboriginal education; IESIP
- Daryl Carmody,
Coordinator of Educational Services, WA Ministry of Justice: Education
in detention centres; remote and rural juvenile offenders
- John Borserio,
regional officer for Catholic education; Michael King, head of section,
Student Support Services, Catholic Education Office: Catholic education;
teacher recruitment; boarding; teacher housing; Indigenous teachers;
funding for Catholic education; technology; student transport; racial
divisions
- Peter Reynolds,
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Education, Edith Cowan University:
Edith Cowan University programs; Aboriginal education; teacher training;
Aboriginal tertiary education; parent expectations; teacher recruitment;
rural secondary education
- Jayne Johnston,
Acting Executive Director of Educational Programs, WA Education Department;
Neil Jarvis, Acting Executive Director of Business and Resources, WA
Education Department; Stephen Home, Executive Director of Human Resources,
WA Education Department: Rural student performance; resources and funding;
information technology; rural and remote teachers; Remote Teaching Service
incentives; curriculum; students at risk; early childhood education;
students with disabilities; Aboriginal education; early childhood pilot
projects; literacy and numeracy; funding and staffing formulae; Aboriginal
Education Workers; travel subsidies; itinerant students; Aboriginal
language teaching; alternative education for excluded students; telecommunications
- Helen Newland,
Isolated Children's Parents Association WA State Council: availability
and accessibility; School of Isolated and Distance Education; costs;
income support and subsidies; Country Areas Program; transport; teaching
incentives; staffing formulae; distance education; information technology;
student health; home tutors; students with disabilities
- David Kelly, General
Secretary, State School Teachers Union of WA: Teacher recruitment; industrial
issues; Remote Teaching Service; regional centres; disability; specialist
itinerant teachers; information technology; Aboriginal Education Workers
- Elaine Rabbitt, Coordinator of the Broome Regional Campus of Edith Cowan University: Travel subsidies; Abstudy
