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Corbett, Michael; Ackerson, Zachary – Canadian Journal of Education, 2019
In this article we offer a comparative analysis of vocational education and training (VET) in two rural regional locations by situating the pragmatic problem of advising rural students against the backdrop of differently structured market-oriented vocational education systems in Canada and Australia, respectively. Each of these jurisdictions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Rural Education, Compulsory Education
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Lobb, Richard – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2019
The Department of Education initiated a pilot of the Rural and Remote Training Schools project in 2011 to promote rural and remote teaching to university students. The program is a key component of the Department's broader attraction and retention strategy and targets the Pilbara, Kimberley, Midwest and Goldfields regions; areas that are deemed to…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, College Students
Diane A. Gibson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study explored the topic of current women administrators and their mentorship experiences. The purpose is to examine if these individuals had a mentor at all and how that relationship evolved. There is a universal graying of administration in Higher Education Leadership and many institutions lack a long-term plan to mentor and replace the…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Instructional Leadership, Administrator Qualifications, Mentors
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Guenther, John; Lowe, Kevin; Burgess, Catherine; Vass, Greg; Moodie, Nikki – Australian Educational Researcher, 2019
Education for Australian First Nations students living in remote communities has long been seen as an intractable problem. Ten years of concerted effort under Closing the Gap and related policy initiatives has done little to change outcomes beyond small, incremental improvements. Programmes and strategies promising much have come and gone, and…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Indigenous Populations, Rural Education, Foreign Countries
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Tekin-Iftar, Elif; Jimenez, Bree A.; Deniz Degirmenci, Hatice – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2021
A global perspective of education, special education, rural communities, and non-traditional instruction is provided for two countries. Both Turkey and Australia have responded to the COVID-19 global pandemic in similar yet, different ways. Through the tale of two countries navigating the rapid response to school closure for students with…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Special Education, Nontraditional Education, Comparative Education
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Hall, Lisa – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2021
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything about the world we live in, in 2020. It is having obvious impacts on the way we teach and the way we learn. In Victoria, Monash Rural Health Bendigo is one of the few places that has managed to continue clinical health education and clinical placements throughout 2020--albeit in modified…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Rural Education, Medical Education
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Moodie, Nikki; Maxwell, Jacinta; Rudolph, Sophie – Australian Educational Researcher, 2019
We present results of a systematic review of empirical research on racism and the schooling experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, focussing on research published from 1989 to 2016. Our review is part of a series of systematic literature reviews on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education in Australia. It attends to…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Foreign Countries, Pacific Islanders, Ethnic Groups
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Martin, Romana; Broadley, Tania – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2018
In an age of globalised learning and teaching, university education continues to extend beyond the classroom with students participating in rich learning opportunities designed to provide authentic learning experiences and foster an international perspective. Bridging the geographical divide between on campus, off campus, rural and remote learners…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Technology Uses in Education, Multicampus Colleges, Educational Innovation
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Willis, Alison S.; Grainger, Peter R. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
This paper reports on a project aimed at investigating teacher wellbeing in remote communities in Australia. It utilised a multiple case study methodology to investigate the lived experiences of remote Australian teachers, particularly how remote teachers simultaneously manage the wellbeing and academic needs of their students. Findings show how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Rural Areas, Rural Education
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McPherson, Amy; Roberts, Philip; Downes, Natalie – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2017
Sustainability is a central challenge facing the future viability of Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) communities in rural Australia. Faced with environmental uncertainty and its associated community impacts, sustainability has at once been positioned as the path to a prosperous future and a flash point of community conflict. Key to these tensions has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Rural Areas, Rural Schools
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Roberts, Philip – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2017
This paper builds upon the evolving methodological perspective of a rural standpoint (Roberts, 2014b), and its related method of strategic eclecticism (Roberts & Green, 2013), to re-analyse existing data behind a previously published paper by Drummond, Halsey and van Breda (2012). It does this through an examination of the role of the rural in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Rural Education, Distance Education
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Downes, Natalie – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2018
In 2017, SPERA [Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia] members and supporters were surveyed on their views of rural education. Forty-two participants responded to the online survey through targeted and snowball recruitment. Participants shared their opinions of the main issues in rural education, the challenges facing rural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Access to Education, Educational Quality
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Watson, Jane; Wright, Suzie; Allen, Jeanne Maree; Hay, Ian; Cranston, Neil; Beswick, Kim – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2017
School and community interaction is an important topic in education, as evidence suggests that communities that value their local schools engender more positive long-term outcomes and a strengthening of the social capital for the students from those schools. Although school and community interaction has been explored from the schools' perspective,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Rural Education, Community Involvement
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Woodroffe, Jessica; Kilpatrick, Sue; Williams, Brett; Jago, Matthew – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2017
Small places are not devoid of opportunities nor of successful programs to equip them for the future, despite perception to the contrary (West, 2013). This paper considers career education in the context of rural places in the modern globalised world. The paper introduces the "Pathways to Success" project, involving more than eighty…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Career Education, Adult Education
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Knipe, Sally – Education and Society, 2020
This research examines national data and investigates the nature of provincial education in Australia, with a particular focus on students attending schools in isolated areas. Numerous government reports and research findings have acknowledged a range of issues regarding the academic performance of students from "rural" to describe the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Student Needs
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