![By Premier's Department, State Public Relations Bureau, Photographic Unit [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Queensland_State_Archives_2986_A_School_of_the_Air_primary_student_in_regional_Queensland_takes_class_via_two_way_radio_c_1960.png "Queensland State Archives 2986 A School of the Air primary student in regional Queensland takes class via two way radio c 1960 By Premier's Department, State Public Relations Bureau, Photographic Unit [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons")
The Western Australia government has announced a planned closure of the WA Schools of the Air (SOTA) will not not take place. It had been planned to transfer students to the School of Isolated Distance Education
(SIDE) in 2019. There was no mention of if six "camp school sites" which were also to be closed will be retained.
The minister for education had characterized the closures of the SOTA as eliminating
duplication. It is not clear if under the new plan there will be any integration of the regional SOTA with the metropolitan SIDE.Thursday, January 18, 2018
WA Government Reversed Decision to Close Schools of the Air
The Western Australia government has announced a planned closure of the WA Schools of the Air (SOTA) will not not take place. It had been planned to transfer students to the School of Isolated Distance Education
(SIDE) in 2019. There was no mention of if six "camp school sites" which were also to be closed will be retained.
The minister for education had characterized the closures of the SOTA as eliminating
duplication. It is not clear if under the new plan there will be any integration of the regional SOTA with the metropolitan SIDE.
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