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A will and a way : saving millions and lives

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Lawler, Louise
  • Journal Name: 9th National Rural Health Conference
  • Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
  • Published Location: Deakin West, ACT
  • Country: Australia

The most effective way to reduce poverty and marginalisation in society is through education, which results in high employment, greater expendable income capable of supporting a welfare system and increased personal leisure time; this leads to social stability and optimal conditions for good population health. This paper reports on ....

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Parenting Workshop / Camps Project at Albury Community Health Centre

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Gibb, Catherine; Murray, Margaret
  • Publisher: National Rural Health Alliance
  • Published Location: Deakin West, ACT
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Parenting Workshop/Camp Project in Albury was designed to facilitate a culturally appropriate model of care that would incorporate the local community's expertise and individual talents in the delivery of parenting education. The aim of the project was to address the parenting issues and ne ....

Abra-Cadastre - Now You See Them - Now You Don't: Improving Statistical Data and Geography in the Northern Territory of Australia

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Griffith, Dennis
  • Journal Name: Sustaining Regions
  • Journal Number: Vol. 7, No. 1
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Northern Territory

The paper describes how some of the existing statistical classifications and definitions used by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) hide or minimise the extent of disadvantage experienced in remote and sparsely populated areas of Australia. The ASGC Remoteness Classification, SEIFA Indices and definition of Unemployed person ....

Academic Partnerships at a Regional University Campus: A Fresh Look at Faculty Mentoring

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Penman, Joy; Willsher, Kerre
  • Journal Name: Education in Rural Australia
  • Journal Number: Vol. 17, No. 2
  • Country: Australia

Early in 2005, Joy Penman and Kerre Willsher, lecturers in nursing at a regional university campus, initiated a mentoring programme aimed at assisting Kerre.s smooth transition into a university academic role. Kerre is an experienced clinician but without experience in teaching at tertiary level, while Joy is an experienced academi ....

Accelerated learning as an alternative approach to education: Possibilities and challenges faced by CHOLEN, an NGO program in Bangladesh

  • Year: 2007
  • Author: Gomes, Mary Monica
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Published Location: United States -- Massachusetts
  • ISBN: 9780549170570
  • Country: Bangladesh

This dissertation is based on a field study of an alternative schooling program, CHOLEN, in Bangladesh. The purpose was to seek a clearer understanding of an alternative education model known as 'accelerated learning', where the time required for learning is much shorter than in conventional models, and is used where learners are unable ....

Access to education for rural students

  • Year: 2014
  • Author: Victorian Auditor-General's Office
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Rural Victoria

Students in rural Victoria make up 30 per cent of the student population. In rural Victoria levels of disadvantage are higher and educational aspirations and outcomes are lower than for metropolitan areas. This creates unique and complex challenges for government agencies. This audit assessed the effectiveness of the Department of Education and ....

Additional years of Australian Rural Clinical School undergraduate training is associated with rural practice

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Forster, Lesley; Assareh, Hassan; Watts, Lisa D; McLachlan, Craig S
  • Journal Name: BMC Medical Education
  • Journal Number: 13
  • Publisher: BioMed Central
  • Published Location: London, United Kingdom
  • ISBN: 14726920
  • Country: Australia

To understand the influence of the number of years spent at an Australian rural clinical school (RCS) on graduate current , preferred current and intended location for rural workforce practice. Increasing the length of time beyond a year at an Australian RCS campus for undergraduate medical students is associated with current work location, pref ....

Akubras to hard hats: easing skill shortages through labour harmonisation strategies

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Christine Storer, Julia Connell
  • Journal Name: Australian Bulletin of Labour
  • Journal Number: Vol. 29, No. 1
  • Country: Australia

This article examines skill and labour shortages within rural agricultural industries in Western Australia. It draws on primary and secondary data, including 600 survey respondents in the sector. It is determined that there may be a shortage of farm workers during the busy seasons, while they are unemployed during the low seasons.   Conseq ....

An analysis of data from the longitudinal survey of ATSI job seekers, topic 1: labour market participation patterns and pathways to Indigenous employment

  • Year: 2003
  • Author: Hunter, Boyd; Gray, Matthew; Jones, Roger
  • Publisher: Dept. of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business
  • Published Location: Canberra, ACT
  • ISBN: 064232610X
  • Country: Australia

This July 2000 report from the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research to the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business describes the strengths and limitations of the data collected in the Longitudinal Survey of Indigenous Job Seekers, and provides an overview of how Indigenous labour market behaviour ....

An investigation into why students from regional South Australia choose to study business programs in the capital city

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Sawyer, Janet; Ellis, Bronwyn
  • Journal Name: Education in Rural Australia
  • Journal Number: Vol. 21, No. 2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: South Australia

Although Business undergraduate studies are available at the University of South Australia's (UniSA) Centre for Regional Engagement (CRE), both at the Whyalla Campus and the Mount Gambier Regional Centre (MGRC), many students from regional South Australia choose to undertake Business degrees in Adelaide, the state capital, rather t ....

Are we making education count in remote Australian communities or just counting education?

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Guenther, John.
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Indigenous Education
  • Journal Number: Vol. 42 No. 2
  • Publisher: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit
  • Published Location: Brisbane Qld
  • ISBN: 1326-0111
  • Country: Australia

For quite some time the achievements of students in remote Australian schools have been lamented. There is not necessarily anything new about the relative difference between the results of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in remote communities and their counterparts in urban, regional and rural schools across Australia. However, in ....

At-risk Students in a Rural Context: Benefits and Gains from a Coping Skills Program

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Eacott, Chelsea; Frydenberg, Erica
  • Journal Name: Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling
  • Journal Number: Vol. 18, No. 2
  • Country: Australia

There are increasing demands in schools to provide social-emotional learning opportunities for students. This article reports on the utility of a universal coping skills program for young people at risk for depression in a rural context. The study deals specifically with the utility of the Best of Coping (BOC) program implemented to&nbs ....

Aunty Jean's Good Health Team: listening to the voices of the elders to create an Aboriginal chronic and complex care program : participatory evaluation of the Illawarra Health, Aboriginal Chronic and Complex Care, Pilot Program

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Curtis, Sue.
  • Publisher: Illawarra Health
  • Published Location: Wollongong, NSW
  • ISBN: 0646436619
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

Aunty Jean's Good Health Team began as a pilot program that aimed to develop a combined model of health promotion, education and self management that could be supportive of and sustain the development of good health behaviours and strategies for Aboriginal people with chronic and complex care needs. This report explains how the pro ....

Australia's sustainability: a new policy front for rural education?

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Halsey, R. John
  • Journal Name: Education in Rural Australia
  • Journal Number: Vol.19, No.2
  • Country: Australia

Rural education and its policy agenda has for many decades primarily focussed upon responding to decline to 'keep things  going; keep things open'. While this has been understandable and much has been achieved, it is now opportune - essential? - that rural education and its leaders embrace a new challenge, sustainability, and use it to pursu ....

Australian Higher Education: Regional universities under a coalition government

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Dominic O'Sullivan
  • Journal Name: The Australian Universities' Review
  • Journal Number: Vol. 55, Issue. 1
  • Publisher: National Tertiary Education Union
  • Published Location: South Melbourne
  • ISBN: 0818-8068
  • Country: Australia

Projected student enrolment growth places the Australian higher education system on the precipice of significant change, leading to philosophical debates about how the system should respond. One suggested policy change is that resources be redirected from non-research intensive regional universities to other providers.   The Liberal Party ....

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