• Promoting the development of rural Australia

    SPERA acknowledges that the land we call Australia has – for tens of thousands of years – been the spiritual and physical home of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who continue to carry this unbroken cultural connection into the 21st century. We pay our respects to the ancestors and elders past, present and emerging.

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Attracting Teachers to Schools in Rural and Remote Areas in Australia

  Region-related disparities are among the main factors…
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AIJRE Special Issue Proposals Invited

We are calling for a Special Issue topic and special editor.…
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Rural Education on the Global Stage

AIJRE Vol 29 No 1 (2019): Rural Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education

Why the need for a special edition on First Nations ruraleducation?…
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2018 AREA Winners

Congratulations 2018 Australian Rural Education Award Winners! At the 2018 SPERA Conference, three fantastic AREAs were presented.
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