Research and Reports
The Country Education Partnership has bestowed a number of Life Memberships on individuals who have provided valuable and significant contributions to the organisation over the past 40 years.
Rural Education
Small Schools Flyer – A resource for schools to give to parents consdiering sending their child to a small school.
Principal Support Handout (2025) – A list of supports for principals.
New South Wales and South Australian state governments joint “social media summit” findings (2024)
Inquiry into the state education system in Victoria (2024) – CEP’s advocacy efforts.
Educational Disadvantage in Rural and Regional Australia: Mitchell Institute (2018) – A paper presented to the ACER conference in 2018.
Independent Review into Regional, Rural and Remote Eduction Government Response (2017)– This paper is a review into regional, rural and remote education, intended to examine the challenges and barriers to positive leanring outcomes.
Expert Advisory Panel Rural and Regional Education report (2019)– A report that includes recommendations for the Minister of Education on improving educational outcomes for studentsin Rural and Regional Victoria.
Independent Review into Regional, Rural and Remote Education (2018)– A report that considers the key issues, challenges and barriers that impact on the learning outcomes of regional, rural and remote students. This report also identies innovative approaches to support improved access and achievement of these students in school and in their transition to further study, training and employment.
National Regional Rural and Remote Tertiary Education Strategy (2019)– This paper focuses on and intends to address regional, rural and remote students, and their disadvantage regarding tertitary education.
Out of the Loop – Center for Pubki Education (2018)– This paper explores how American rural schools are often excluded from research and policy discussions which excerbates poverty, inequity and isolation.
Rural Education Blueprint (2018)- Background material and documentation.
Rural Education Blueprint (2018)- Case for action.
Rural Education Blueprint (2018)- Proposed initiatives.
The Economic Impact of Improving Regional, Rural and Remote Education in Australia (2018)- This report documents the differences in educational outcomes between remote, rural, regional and urban Australians.
Optimism of the will (2017)– The development of local area-based education partnerships. A think-piece.
Riverina Access Partnership Evaluation Report (2016)- Provides insight into effective strategies and practices developed through partnership.
Rural School Governance
Rural School Councils: CEP (2016) – A project undertaken by Country Education Partnership to explore the issues facing rural School Councils and consider future possible approaches.
Rural Recruitment & Retention
Frontiers Article – This paper provides an update on compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress in teachers: How they contribute to burnout and how they are related to trauma-awareness.
Australian Journal of Teacher Education– This paper provides an update on previous reports of the extent of Initial Teacher Education courses that prepare teachers for rural schools in Australia.
Staffing Rural, Remote & Isolated Schools in Australia (2017) – a paper that reviews the research literature from 2004-2016 regarding rural, remote and isolated staffing trends, benefits, challenges, support systems and leadership.
Evaluation of the Rural and Remote Training Schools Project (2017)– a report that assesses the Project, informs future policy and funding decision and helps the department improve practices regarding Training Schools Project.
P-12 Education
Content to come
PASS Position Paper on Principal Qualifications in Specialist Schools
PASS Position Paper on Principal Qualifications in Specialist Schools – Principals’ Association of Specialist Schools (PASS) recognises the complexities that exist in the management of specialist schools and therefore believes that Victoria Government Principals in Department of Education (DE) specialist schools hold appropriate qualifications and have expertise in these school environments.
Creative Rural Learning Initiatives
Transforming local education systems thinkpiece(2020?)- strategies for transforming local education systems.
Wales rural education action plan (2017)-sets out the actions that s being taken to support the delivery of education in rural Wales.
Data Drives School- Community Collaboration(2015)- a set of seven priniciples that can be used to encourage effective data sharing, which is especially important in rural environemtns.
Collaborative Professionalism (2017)- a document that explains why collaborative professionalism is useful and how it can be executed.
The shared work of learning lifting educational achievement through collaboration (2015)- exploration of collaborative learning in rural Australia and how it can improve educational outcomes.
Learning together (2015)– a description of how cluster-based school improvement can improve education and be implemented.
Cutting through the complexity (2018)- a roadmap for effective collaboration.
Rural school collaboratives (2016)– this paper highlights the positive outcomes of cluster schools in rural towns.
Rural Education Leadership
Content to come
Rural Education Frameworks
British Columbia Rural Education Strategy: Ministry of Education (2015) – the rural education framework for British Columbia.
National Framework for Rural and Remote Education- this paper provides a framework for the development of nationally agreed policies and support services and promotes the delivery of consistient, high quality education services.
Blended & Virtual Learning
Content to come
Education Summit 2023
Reimagining the Principalship Press Release – the findings from the VASSP, VPA, PASS, CEP and APF, Education Summit.
Rural Youth Aspirations
How to Help Young People Transition Into Adulthood (2019) – Explains the theory behind what drives the Rural Youth Ambassador Program.
Generating Opportunity and Prosperity (2016)- Details how rural communities can produce greater educational opportunity and economic prosperity in a time of fiscal challenges.
Conspiring to inspire community aspirations through remote education (2015)– This paper unpacks what aspiration and inspiration look like look like from remote community perspectives. It also considers the impact of system wide strategies on remote communities and the cultural distance between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.