The Australian approach to lifting standards of schooling has a crucial blind spot: the role of the people and communities outside school in supporting students.
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The plans to keep schools open through the wave of Omicron infections fail to take into account the particular challenges of staffing rural and remote schools.
It’s important to create spaces where the global South’s problems can be presented, debated and solutions developed - including some that can be applied in similar economies.
Cuba has paid special attention to rural education for decades. This focus has paid off, bringing quality schooling to often-neglected areas.
Australia needs a new approach to solve the rural staffing churn. The solution might be found in better preparing those who teach the teachers.
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NRF Accredited & Senior Researcher; Lead Coordinator of the South-South Educational Collaboration & Knowlede Interchange Initiative, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Professor, School of Education, Flinders University
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Professor, School of Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer, Federation University Australia
