Education

Choices in education for our children and us form a key decision point for those interested in the Regional Australia option for life or study.

Regional Australians live in a wide variety of environments from isolated properties where education can involve home schooling or school of the air through small and medium size towns to substantial cities offering a complete educational hierarchy from pre-schools through to university.

This diversity makes for a complex scene. Our aim in this section is to help you to navigate through this complexity to find the information you need.

In preparing material we have tried to take into account the different interests of our visitors. These include those:

• interested in relocating to regional Australia. This group needs to know about educational opportunities for themselves and their children.
• in metro Australia and from overseas interested in taking advantage of the high value lower cost options offered for study by Regional Australia's educational insitutions.

Special features and case studies are used to illustrate key points in greater depth.

In preparing material for this section we have drawn, among others, from the various guides prepared by Hobsons' (http://www.hobsons.com/) Australian operations. Consistent with our site policy of not duplicating work done by others, we have cross-referenced this back to the various Hobson sites. In addition to these references to specific guides, we recommend visitors to two general Hobson sites:

• http://www.studiesinaustralia.com/ focuses on the needs of overseas students wishing to study in Australia and provides a valuable reference source on opportunities and issues at all levels of education.
• http://www.hobsons.com.au/ provides a general entry point for Hobson's various Australian guides.