Entries Tagged: Distance education

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Correspondence School of Victoria – its first 60 years

Victoria, 1909-1969

By Lesley Preston and Jenny Campbell. Posted .

Victoria established compulsory schooling for all children in 1872, but there were long-standing problems of access for children in some rural and remote areas of the state. One possible solution that enabled governments to meet their educational obligations was to introduce correspondence schooling. This was effective for families isolated from other families with children.… Continue Reading »

Correspondence School, Blackfriars

New South Wales, 1916-1967

By John Ramsland, University of Newcastle. Posted .

The problem of how to educate young people in sparsely settled and remote locations has been with the Australian colonies, territories and states for more than two centuries. Successive solutions included subsidised, provisional, part-time and travelling schools, as well as the delivery of curricula by means that have responded to changing information technologies.… Continue Reading »