Work on a National Curriculum is proceeding with an aim to roll out part one in 2011.
More information is now available as several discussion papers are available for public feedback. These can be accessed online here http://www.ncb.org.au/communications/publications.html
It is not yet clear what effect a national curriculum would have on home educators but we advise home [...]
The members of the Home School Advisory Committee to the Minister for Education have received a letter informing them that that the Minister appreciates their efforts to date, is setting up an annual Roundtable consultation with home schoolers (process as yet unknown) and is not reconvening the HSAC when its term of appointment expires in June this [...]
Home education is legal throughout Australia. Parents do not need to have teaching qualifications.
Home Education has always been legal in Victoria but the legal situation changed in 2007 when the The Education and Training Reform Act 2006 came into effect on 1st July.
Under its terms home educators are required to register with the Victorian Registration [...]
Work on a National Curriculum is proceeding with an aim to roll out part one in 2011.
More information is now available as several discussion papers are available for public feedback. These can be accessed online here http://www.ncb.org.au/communications/publications.html
It is not yet clear what effect a national curriculum would have on home educators but we advise home [...]
The federal government has introduced a controversial bill to link welfare payments to school attendance. They intend to trial this system in WA and NT before rolling it out in other states.
Home education is not truancy so this should have no effect at all on registered home educators but will be a problem for [...]
The Victorian government selected the following home educators to advise them on home education matters:
Lyn Saint (03) 94131 4826 lml@mira.net
Sandra Herbert (03) 5342 8827 s.herbert@ballarat.edu.au
Barb Dennis barbdennis@bigpond.com
Jeanie Clark clarkspark@netconnect.com.au
Anthony White
Josh Fergeus
Fred Cahir
Deborah Lapthorne
Those listed with contact details are members of HEN and happy for you to contact them if you have issues you would like [...]
Registered home educators are exempt from the Welfare to Work laws which apply to parents with children over the age of six.
Registered homeschooling is one of the exemption categories along with large families (four or more children aged between 6 and 16), parents caring for foster children and children with significant disabilities.
For more information contact [...]
The Victorian government has issued guidelines for partial school enrolment by registered home educated students. This formalises an arrangement whereby home educating families negotiate partial enrolment with a school in order to access certain subjects.
Families who wish to pursue partial enrolment need to contact the principal of their neighbourhood school to discuss a workable arrangement but [...]
The Education and Training Reform Act 2006, came into effect in Victoria on 1st July 2007.
It requires home educators to: “register children for homeschooling in accordance with the regulations and to ensure that the child receives instruction in accordance with the regulations.”
There are two levels of legal requirements for home education:
– the Legislation (The Education and [...]
Following the introduction of the Education and Training Reform Act, the Victorian government established a Homeschooling Advisory Committee in order to consult with home educators on regulations pertaining to home education.
The following people were appointed to the committee: Lyn Loxton, Sandra Herbert, Barb Dennis, Jeanie Clark, Josh Fergeus, Anthony White, Fred Cahir and Deborah Lapthorne. [...]