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HomeNewsGrowing Number of Aboriginal Communities Setting Up Independent Schools To Teach 'both Ways'
Growing number of Aboriginal communities setting up independent schools to teach 'both ways'

Image Emma Masters

Monday 12 July 2021

CAEPR's Deputy Director Dr Bill Fogarty, speaks to Emma Masters on two way education. On the rocky, stone country of the Arnhem Land plateau, in one of the remotest corners of Australia, students take a break from class in a cool waterfall they call Kururrkkurduk.

As they duck and dive in their pristine playground, a short drive from their outstation 530 kilometres east of Darwin, the students are unaware they are part of a new generation bucking a record of only 50 per cent attendance in the Northern Territory's remotest schools. Read more