School of the Air


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School of the Air
School of the Air in Alice Springs, at 80 Head St, in the Northern Territory is a well-liked tourist target for both local and international tourists in Australia. By and large visited by overseas schoolchildren and teachers, this famous Outback institution offers descriptive sessions every thirty minutes on through which children dwelling on distant stations are educated over the radio. From town, take bus 3 and alight at stop 5 or 11.

Once you come here, you will see the Visitor Centre equipping travelers with a view of instructions in action and background information on the school. You will come to know as to how it operates, and the everyday life of the students. The isolated primary children in the extreme north of South Australia, the southern half of the Northern Territory and the south-east of Western Australia get a wide range of educational activities and services from this school. This is provided by the Department of Employment, Education and Training (DEET).

This school was the first one of its kind set up in Australia. This is a primary aged correspondence school which aptly utilizes a variety of communications technologies to have every day contact with home tutors, students and teachers.

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