Awards

Nominations for the 2015 Australian Rural Education Awards are now closed. Thank you to all nominees for your submissions. SPERA will be in touch in due course. Since 1994, the…

Applications are called for in the three divisions for the 2014 AREA Awards.  Division One – (existing projects)  Division Two – (new projects)  Division Three – (pre-service citations) The initial application…

Congratulations to 2012 Australian Rural Education Award winner, Kingston Primary School. Kingston Primary School is based in Western Australia. It won the 2012 AREA for the Kingston Internship Model. In…

Principal Brian O’Neill with Prof John Halsey (Sidney Myer Chair, Rural Education and Communities) Calen District State College, Queensland Calen is a small rural community about fifty-seven kilometres north of…

Smart kids and Rural – Giving the Bush Back it’s Future Gifted and talented programs are nothing new and in various forms they are dotted throughout the country. Whilst most…

Professor John Taylor, Director, Rangelands Australia, University of Queensland with Emmy Terry, President SPERA Rangelands Australia, University of Queensland Traditionally, there has been little external engagement and consultation in the…

Principal Joyce Stark and Life Member, Dr Colin Boylan St Joseph‘s School, Barmera Context Statement St Joseph’s School, Barmera is a developing Catholic primary school in the Riverland region. The…

2009 Recipient: Don Boyd Don Boyd commenced his career as a secondary History and Economics teacher and has had 38 years of education experience which incorporates 28 years of rural…