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Gwydir Learning Regional Initiative
The Gwydir region faces many of the challenges of country and remote NSW including population decline and ageing, distance and socio economic disadvantages, and environmental and economic sustainability. The Gwydir Learning Region is a successful community and multi-sectoral education and training co-operative initiative.
The initiative promoted pathways into personal development, vocational education and training, and employment. It is drawing attention to the importance of informal, community-based and work-based learning in leading to such pathways. Its approach is cross-generational, whole-of-community, consultative, and designed to meet the diversity of community needs. It entailed the formation and ongoing cultivation of partnerships between key stakeholders. It activated and captured synergies between four education sectors – school, VET, university and Adult and Community Education.
The Board initiated this project to explore how this innovative, flexible approach, capitalising on multi-sectoral synergies to personalise learning pathways for students and benefit communities, can be developed more broadly across the NSW education and training system. The project investigated the success drivers of the Gwydir Learning Region initiative and identify changes that are required within the NSW education and training system and promote the model more widely to other regions. The project was completed in 2006 and final report available.
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For more information about the Gwydir Learning Regional Initiative Project,
contact Raj Narchal on (02) 9561 1143 or email:raj.narchal@det.nsw.edu.au
View the Final Report
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