Schooling in the Outback

With the world renown hallmark as the ‘lucky country’, it can be difficult to comprehend how the very people we have to thank for the prosperous land on which we live, are amongst the most disadvantaged in the world, rivalling many from developing countries. The dispossession of land, displacement of Australia’s first people and unremitting discrimination since European settlement, has given rise to intergenerational disadvantage in areas such as education, employment and health (***). Whilst the three areas are intertwined, education is unmistakably a quintessential vehicle for building resilience and improving socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous Australians(***). Teachers and schools alike play a key role in acknowledging and addressing past and present injustices through:

Curriculum is designed to develop successful learners. Confident and creative individuals and active and informed citizens (MCEECDYA, 2008, p.13). In 2008, the Australian Government promised to deliver a fair and equitable curriculum for the national’s educational system, taking the task away from the State and Local Governments. The purpose of this was to create an even level of education throughout the country whether in Hobart of Cape York, and to ensure our nations position into the 21st century. This essay will demonstrate the Nation’s curriculum, its structure and development ready for its initial implementation in 2011.

The last place on earth you would want to wake up alone is in the Australian Outback. Well, it became reality for one man after he claimed he was left for dead in the infamous desert with no clue of how he got there in the first place.

Today, federal government's presence is in all schools because they all have some federal assistance with federal rules and

In 1866 New South Wales enacted the Public Schools Act that aimed to address government spending on education, resulting in government schools receiving priority over denominational schools, and providing access to education for the growing number of communities across the colony . The Catholics opposed this move as it was hostile to the their belief in their own system of education and Catholic puritans helped fuel the fire of sectarianism, which continued to make state aid for church-run schools a highly controversial issue . However, times were changing as by the 1870s, in New South Wales, up to sixty per cent of Catholic school children attended state schools . Conflict escalated again in 1879 when the new Catholic Archbishop, Vaughan, denounced the state schools of New South Wales describing them as “seed-plots of future immorality, infidelity and lawlessness” and accused them of “squeezing very gradually and almost imperceptibly the Catholic faith out of Catholic people.” In response the Parkes government enacted the Public Instruction Act of 1880, which resulted in primary education becoming nominally compulsory, cheap, widespread, and removed all state aid to denominational schools . Again the Catholics responded negatively to the decision, which aided in preserving the Catholic identity, although this came at the cost of making themselves a distinctive sub-culture in the Australian community . Despite this, Henry Parkes, premier of New South Wales, gave a speech in 1885, and instead of condemning the Catholics for being different,

In Australia, post World War II the federal government began to take an increasing role over the states in education, as states were finding it increasingly difficult to fund higher education due in part to the baby boom post World War II and the requirement for more university trained teachers and by the late 1950’s. Furthermore, politically, grouwing desire among politicians to enable more potential students to enroll in higher education(Krieken, 2013, p. 150).

Schooling in Australia reproduces and exists to reproduce the structure of inequality we see in class and sex. Social stratification is endorsed by the secular, free and compulsory schooling that is provided in Australian society (Connell, et al., 1986). There is a lack of social mobility through education, especially in capitalist economies, this can be attributed to Government policy and how it tends to increase educational inequality rather than reduce it.

     In the regional government, each of Australia’s states is administered by a parliament, which consists of a legislative council, and a legislative assembly. The premier is the leader of the political party dominating the legislative assembly. Each state runs its own schools and hospitals, administers its own laws, and has its own police force.

As for the administration of public education, there are several different levels on how schools are managed. There are public institutions that are managed in part by the national administration, but primarily by the state and local government. In terms of education, it is necessary for it to be governed locally because of the different needs that each district may face. Since some schools are in wealthier neighborhoods, they may score better than others that may be in much poorer neighborhoods.

The first goal is Australian schooling promotes equity and excellences. This establishes that socioeconomic weakness eases to be important determinant of educational developments. It also adds to decrease the repercussions of other sources of weakness, such as refugee status.

The Skilled Regional (489) visa is a temporary talented Immigration visa that can give a pathway to lasting living arrangement. The visa is directed by the Commonwealth Government's (DIAC) Department of Immigration and Border Protection. Preceding applying for this visa you must be selected by a state or region government, or supported by a qualified relative living in Australia. The Skilled Regional (Provisional) Subclass 489 visa is a 4-year temporary visa which obliges holders to live and work in a provincial territory to acquire perpetual living arrangement. To qualify, the candidate needs be supported by either a relative living in an assigned range or a State or Territory

They offer opportunities for people from developing countries, especially those countries located in the Indo-Pacific region, to start full time undergraduate or postgraduate study at participating Australian universities and Technical and Further

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Australian international students are granted as opportunity the ability to incorporate study with work - (up to 40 hours per fortnight) .

Regardless of the financial costs of education, statistics show in the years from 1983 to 1996 numbers of students in tertiary education doubled and retention rates within secondary schooling reached new heights, rising from 40.6% in 1983 to 71.3% in 1996 (Jamrozik, 2009), clearly placing education as a high value within the Australian society and becoming a lifetime pursuit for many people. However historically, the changes that have occurred over the years, have reinforced Australia’s problem with social inequalities within the education system.