Education

For Cowra restaurateurs Anna Wong and Jerry Mouzakis, it was crunch time. Having left Sydney careers in systems implementation and teaching in 2000 to move to their hobby farm just out of Cowra,...

Laura Bairstow lives almost 4000 kilometres from her family farm in south-eastern Western Australia and may only see her parents a couple of times this year, but the 19-year-old considers herself...

As a farmer and mother of three, Jane Woods, of Boggabilla, NSW, says her years at boarding school challenged her to try new things and form friendships she maintains to this day, but that...

When Annika Mogg left her small school in Cobram, Vic, to study at Melbourne’s Genazzano FCJ College, she intended to board at the big city school for exactly one week, as was the deal...

There's no disputing the fact that the principal of Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School, Flo Kearney, knows a thing or two about educating young women. Every year, almost 100 percent of her...

In a rustic homestead, hidden behind a confusion of foliage, master craftsman Eddy Powell conducts the only government-accredited saddle-making course of its kind in Australia. Eddy, wife Maryanne...

When standing in front of a classroom of teenage boys who spend most of their time plugged into ipods, texting friends and downloading computer games – all at the same time – it can be...

 The third week in January is a flurry of lists, name tags and last-minute purchases in regional Australia, as the start of the boarding-school year looms large. Information is supplied about...

THE EXPENSES and difficulties of study can be immense, particularly for those who come from the rural and remote areas. That’s why a number of different organisations, corporations and...

established, it was not built in downtown Brisbane but the bush outpost of Ipswich. Sixty students, most of them boarders from grazing properties to the west, made up the inaugural Ipswich Grammar...

As one of 14 students selected for the production course at Sydney’s prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) this year, 18-year-old Tyson MacKenzie left his hometown of Lochiel,...

The close knit boarding community at Adelaide’s Scotch College means all boarders get the attention they deserve and are also encouraged and supported in individual activities and...

As the mining boom continues, more and more rural workers are being tempted into this lucrative industry, and cattle stations all over the country are crying out for stockmen. A dedicated team at...

Lincoln College in North Adelaide was once the home of politician and noted federalist Sir Richard Chaffey Baker. Today this residential college of the University of Adelaide helps ease the...

At Menindee Central School, in south-western New South Wales, principal Brian Debus is about to oversee the graduation of the largest group of Year 12 indigenous students the school has ever...

The cadet unit at Kinross Wolaroi School has just finished their annual camp and the kids have returned exhausted but excited about their experience in the bush. The camp is a week of high physical...

Art is at the centre of education at ‘Churchie’, Brisbane’s Anglican Church Grammar School, especially during the National Emerging Arts Exhibition. Perhaps unusually for a...

Thoughts of boys and girls attending boarding school together invariably conjure images of late-night window climbing. But the reality is a long way from the stereotype, according to the principal of...

The woman’s voice is soft and hesitant and tears aren’t far away. She isn’t comfortable speaking in public but the issue of her children’s education is too important to remain...

JOEY Buckerfield wasn’t going to rest on his laurels after being named Student of the Year for the Mareeba Campus of the Australian Agricultural College Corporation (AACC) last year. The driven...

The Geelong College has a proud history of boarding for boys and girls and is committed to providing its boarders with an ‘extended family’ at school. All boarders participate in sport,...

When you think five-star accommodation it’s not exactly boarding school that springs to mind. But Adelaide’s Walford Anglican School for Girls offers what it describes as a...

In the space of just 20 months Harry Bennett has progressed from being the new kid on the block to vice captain of Sydney’s oldest independent school. The 17-year-old from Scone, in the Upper...

“Our experience is that children become very close with their parents. People talk about boys grunting and being monosyllabic but every time our boys see their parents they are full of...

Going to school on Queensland’s Gold Coast sounds like a good way to get some surfing practise. But not for the boys at The Southport School (TSS). From their coastal location they’re...

When students graduate from St Peters Lutheran College in Brisbane, they’re asked to name the highlight of their high-school years. Most of them sum it up in one word: “Ironbark”.St...

It’s 2pm on a hot and sticky Wednesday afternoon in Emerald, central Queensland. Around the room there are some regular, unabashed yawns, a few teary eyes and there’s a bit of...

Young Australians living in rural and remote areas are as bright and ambitious as their counterparts living in Australia's major metropolitan centres. However, when they come to make the crucial...

The sun dips below the distant hills as the bus leaves the “Avenue of Honour”.  The plaque at the entrance reads, “In memory of those who paid the supreme sacrifice in...

Bernard Baxter, dairy farmer, leader and agri-politician, credits Marcus Oldham College in Geelong, Victoria, for launching him into the diverse world of agriculture. The exposure to national and...

One of the most challenging problems faced by parents of isolated children is providing for their children’s education. In many cases, the hard decision must be made to send their children to...