MCEETYA Taks Force on Rural and Remote Education, Training , Employment and Children’s Services, 2001

The purpose of the National Framework for Rural and Remote Education is to:

• provide a framework for the development of nationally agreed policies and support services
• promote consistency in the delivery of high quality education services to rural and remote students and their families
• provide reference points and guidance for non-government providers of services and support for education in rural and remote areas
• facilitate partnership building between government and non-government providers of services and support related to the provision of education in regional, rural and remote locations.

Rationale

Recommendation 4.4 in the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) report referred to the necessity to develop a national rural education policy. The task force believed that it would be more productive to develop an agreed framework that allows for local differences and provides flexibility in implementation by individual State and Territory education systems and sectors.

The framework focuses upon the requirements of providing education in rural and remote locations while recognising that country communities are often places of great innovation, expertise and resilience.

http://www.curriculum.edu.au/verve/_resources/rural_file.pdf