Rural and Remote Education - WA

Rural

and Remote Education - WA

Public Hearing in Perth WA

- 24 May 1999

Witnesses giving

evidence in Perth were:

1. 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

2. Kim Collard, Aboriginal

   Education Training Council; with David Price, Executive Officer: Aboriginal

   Studies; Strategic Plan for Aboriginal education; IESIP

3. Daryl Carmody,

   Coordinator of Educational Services, WA Ministry of Justice: Education

   in detention centres; remote and rural juvenile offenders

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Elaine Rabbitt,

   Coordinator of the Broome Regional Campus of Edith Cowan University:

   Travel subsidies; Abstudy

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