AHISA SUBMISSION

House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training 

14 February 2020

Inquiry into education in remote and complex environments

The inquiry is examining ‘the performance of the Australian education system in remote and regional areas, its territories and in complex circumstances like drought and post-natural disaster’.

AHISA’s submission gathers together data from surveys of members and other reports of practice in members’ schools relating to education provision in regional and remote areas, and provision for students from regional and remote areas attending metropolitan or inner regional schools. Much of this information was gathered to inform AHISA’s submissions to the Inquiry into Educational Opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Students, the Independent Review into Regional, Rural and Remote Education, the Expert Review of Australia’s Vocational Education and Training System, the National Regional, Rural and Remote Education Strategy consultation and, most recently, the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into mental health.

Based on what is now a substantial body of evidence, AHISA’s submission to the education in remote and complex environments inquiry presents a range of key findings and recommendations from members to inform the Standing Committee’s deliberations.

Submission on education in remote and complex environments