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Griffith, Dennis A. – Education in Rural Australia, 2003
A purely geographic classification is not the best way to measure rural disadvantage in Australia. A service access model is described that incorporates the following elements: population center size; distance, time, and cost of travel to the service center; and a measure of the economic capacity of residents to overcome the cost of travel.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Classification, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
Fowler, Clifford F. – 1981
The report examines and documents the part played by certain local and regional committees in the operation of the Priority Country Area Program (PCAP) in South-West and Central Queensland prior to 1980. Two original studies are described: one concerned with the Local Advisory Committees (LACs) in South-West Priority Country Area and the other…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Involvement, Cultural Activities, Educationally Disadvantaged