The Country Education Project Incs Rural School Council Governance Project was undertaken in 2010 to explore approaches and options for future governance approaches within rural communities.
The project has been supported within resourcing from DEECD and a final report was presented to the department in September of 2010.
The aim of the project was
To identify school governance issues related to the support of rural education and to explore possible governance approaches that support rural education into the future.
The project focused on three key areas including:
- Identifying the governaing possible future governance approaches that support rural education provision.
- Reviewing current support resource materials, develop and trial governance support options and resources that support the undertook a number of activities as part of this project:
- Surveying rural school councilors in relation to issues impacting on the role of school governance within a rural context
- Exploring and documenting current school governance approaches operating within rural communities within Victoria, other states and internationally
- Supporting five rural focus communities to explore current school governance issues and to consider possible future governance approaches that will support quality education provision within these communities into the future
- Reviewing current school council training resources materials and evaluate them in relation to rural school council needs.
- Identifing future school councilor training opportunities and approaches to provide such training.
The key recommendation from this project uses the rural culture and history to propose the development of a more inclusive and participative model for rural school governance into the future in addition to the current models of one school council – one school; one school council – multi site. Within this report it is identified as a “Cluster Collaborative Model” of School Governance.
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