AHISA definition
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Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia | AHISA Ltd | ABN 99 006 107 ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ AHISA Ltd is a professional association for Heads of independent schools.
The primary object of AHISA is to optimise the opportunity for the education and welfare of Australia’s young people through the maintenance of collegiality and high standards of professional practice and conduct amongst its members.
AHISA is aware that terminology and the understandings that inform it are important in discussing issues relating to location.
AHISA recognises, however, that identifying achievement gaps can be a useful and important means of identifying opportunity gaps.
AHISA members who lead schools in ‘Remote’ or ‘Very Remote’ locations are alive to the need to make explicit the assumptions that can inform definitions of terms and their use.
AHISA believes that a high quality schooling system in Australia depends on: • Parents having the freedom to exercise their rights and responsibilities in regard to the education of their children • Students and their families having the freedom to choose among diverse schooling options • Schools having the autonomy to exercise educational leadership as they respond to the emerging needs of their communities in a rapidly changing society.
For its 2017 and 2019 surveys, AHISA invited members to indicate the location of their school by state/territory and according to the Australian Standard Geographic Classification system, which allows for the definition of location as ‘Major City’, ‘Inner Regional’, ‘Outer Regional’, ‘Remote’, and ‘Very Remote’.
One in every five Australian Year 12 students gains part of their education at an AHISA member’s school.
In this submission, AHISA has adopted the acronyms used by the Regional Education Expert Advisory Group in its framing paper: the acronym ‘RRR’ signifies ‘regional, rural and remote’; and the acronym ‘RRRE’ signifies ‘regional, rural and remote education’.