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Education in Rural Australia Vol 17, No 1 (2007)

Table of Contents Guest Editorial Comments - Colin Boylan …
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Education in Rural Australia Vol 13, No 1 (2003)

Journal Papers Quantifying Access Disadvantage and Gathering…
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Education in Rural Australia Vol 13, No 2 (2003)

Journal Papers The Rural Population Transformation and Education…
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Education in Rural Australia Vol 14, No 1 (2004)

Journal Papers Some links between economic and social changes…
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Education in Rural Australia Vol 14, No 2 (2004)

Journal Papers Beyond The Agricultural Paradigm in Regional…
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Call for Abstracts: 2016 SPERA/ISFIRE Conference

Rural Education: Place, Pedagogies, Partnerships and Possibilities SPERA,…

Transparency needed in teacher recruitment: The smoke may be clearing in the ATAR battle

ACER recently reported that: In recent debates about ATARs we…
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Labor will need more than scholarships to make teaching science an attractive career

Shaun Belward wrote in The Conversation on 20th May 2016 Labor…
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The Federal Budget and Regional Australia

Article published by Regional Australia Institute The Federal…

Federal budget 2016: education experts react

Article written for The Conversation by Glenn C. Savage, Conor…
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Call for Papers: Unsettling Place and Space.

Editors: Sarah Pinto, Shelley Hannigan, Emma Charlton and Bernadette…

DEAL OR NO DEAL? BRINGING SMALL CITIES INTO THE NATIONAL CITIES AGENDA

Article published by Regional Australia Institute Australia’s…
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Pre-service Teacher Sponsorship 2016

Apply today! Sponsorships are available for pre-service educators…
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Australian Rural Education Awards 2016

Call for Nominations Since 1994, the Australian Rural Education…
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SPERA Annual General Meeting 2015 Minutes

SPERA Annual General Meeting 2015 was held at Deakin University…

Five new frameworks that can drive teacher education reform

Written by Professor John Fischetti for The Conversation There…
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32nd National SPERA Conference 2016

Rural Education: Place, Pedagogies, Partnerships and Possibilities Hosted…
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What’s so hard about teaching? Words of advice for new teachers

Article written by  Misty Adoniou for The Conversation The…
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2016 ACEN Student scholarships

Eight scholarships of $1,500 for remote and regional Australia Applications…
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Innovation Watch

Innovation Watch is a national network of regional Australians…
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Remote Education Systems

About the project The Remote Education Systems (RES) project…
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Closing the ‘digital divide’ for disadvantaged students

Thursday 21 January 2016 Joint Media Release from The Department…
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2016 Grant Opportunities

Happy New Year! To help you make the most of 2016, the following…
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Inspiring Educators: An Interview with Mr Brian O’Neill

The Team at Faculty recently spoke with Mr Brian O'Neill, who…
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RUN welcomes changes to Youth Allowance to help regional students

The Regional Universities Network (RUN) welcomes changes to Youth…
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Thank You Deakin

Since the first SPERA National Conference was held 31 years…
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Improving mathematics and science education in rural Australia: A practice report

Robert Whannell, Steve Tobias There has been a steady decline in the number of secondary and tertiary students studying mathematics and science. Rural schools also report a shortage of qualified teachers in these disciplines. This paper describes the steps taken at the University of New England (UNE) to improve the provision of mathematics and science education (MS) in rural Australia. Initiatives such as the use of an online interactive digital classroom by rural NSW schools presenting MS contexts based on a SMART (sustainable, management, and accessible rural technologies) Farm will be presented. Research to improve teacher confidence and competence in these areas will be discussed along with the steps being taken to develop a Higher Education Research Facility (HERF) which will support research and engagement in the STEM domain.