These formal submissions have been compiled by ICPA (Aust) on behalf of rural and remote students and their educational needs.
2021-2022 Pre-Budget Submission
This submission forms part of our work in advocating for allowances to further assist families and students in rural and remote areas of Australia to gain equity in accessing education. Funding these allowances would help alleviate and overcome the challenges families face when educating their children in isolated regions of Australia.
2021-2022 Pre-Budget Submission
Submission to the Australian Curriculum Review
Due to geographical isolation, many rural and remote students across Australia access their schooling from Foundation to Year 10 either by distance education in the home schoolroom or at small rural schools, often with a small teaching staff.
It is for this reason that ICPA (Aust) is encouraged by the intention of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) to improve the Australian Curriculum F-10 by refining, realigning and decluttering curriculum content.
Submission to the Australian Curriculum Review
Submission to the Future Drought Fund Annual Report
ICPA (Aust) believes programs and measures should be implemented to assist with the significant out-of-pocket educational expenses incurred for education due to where these families live, should be implemented. Ideally this could be realised with the introduction of a Rural Hardship Education Fund (RHEF) to assist families with the cost of education during drought or other rural hardship.
Submission to the Future Drought Fund Annual Report
Submission to the Universal Service Guarantee Taskforce Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications into the Draft Telecommunications (Carrier Licence
Conditions - Telstra Corporation Limited) Amendment (Regional Service Information) Instrument 2021
In geographically isolated parts of Australia it can prove challenging not only to provide adequate communications services but to also ensure these services are maintained, repaired and reliable. ICPA (Aust) continues to advocate that, where educational delivery hinges on the availability of communications technology, it is essential that priority is given to the installation and maintenance of these services.
Submission to the Regional Telecommunications Independent Review Committee into the Regional Telecommunications Review 2021
Since the last Regional Telecommunications Review in 2018, there have been some major communications developments in regional, rural and remote locations. The nation has also experienced a considerably changed environment as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. ICPA (Aust) has welcomed the telecommunication advances which have proven very beneficial to our members, including the roll out of Sky Muster Plus and COVID 19 related responses such as extra data allowances and SMS over WiFi.
Submission to the Quality Initial Teaching Education Review
ICPA (Aust) appreciates the opportunity to contribute to the Quality Initial Teacher Education Review from a rural and remote educational perspective. Geographically isolated students need to be considered as a unique disadvantage group in any discussions and consideration of education programs, including teacher education and the recruitment and retention of teachers in rural and remote Australia.
Submission to the Quality Initial Teaching Education Review
Submission to the Inquiry into Adult Literacy and its Importance
The impacts of geographical isolation on the educational outcomes of children need to be considered in the Inquiry into adult literacy and its importance in order to understand and address the potential implications in adulthood. Unless universal access to early childhood education and improved identification and services for students with learning difficulties and other contributing challenges associated with a lag in educational outcomes in rural and remote areas are addressed, we will continue to see deficient adult literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills, along with a lack of skilled workforce in regional, rural and remote communities of Australia.
Submission to the Inquiry into Adult Literacy and its Importance
Submission to the Review of the Disability Standards for Education 2005
The Isolated Children’s Parents’ Association of Australia, ICPA (Aust) welcomes the opportunity to participate in the Review of the Disability Standards for Education 2005 and highlight the challenges that are unique to rural and remote students with disability, including from an early childhood perspective, to ensure the standards effectively support these children.
Submission to the Review of the Disability Standards for Education 2005
Submission to the Review into Consumer Safeguards – Part C: Choice and Fairness
In order to improve customer outcomes and industry compliance, whatever process is put into place to strengthen the code-making process, it needs to be enforceable. If customer compensation for faulty or inoperable service exist in the regulations, then these types of compensation need to be done automatically, and not rely on a request from the customer. In any decisions made regarding consumer safeguards, the unique circumstances of rural and remote families need to be considered to ensure choice and fairness are upheld.
Submission to the Review into Consumer Safeguards – Part C: Choice and Fairness
