One of the benefits provided for in the Aboriginal Secondary Grants Scheme is funding for students to take part in school excursions. For students in remote areas, this provision is very necessary and important. Teachers very willingly plan and supervise excursions each year and the effort that they put in is commendable. However, not all excursions are eventually seen by teachers, students or parents as successful. It would appear therefore that some evaluation of excursions is warranted.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Consultative Committee to the Director General of Education has presented its first report, as a result of its meetings and investigations during 1977.