The Access Asia Program is a national initiative that is jointly funded by Commonwealth and State Governments. The Asia Education Foundation (AEF), based in Melbourne oversees the national management of the program with state based education sectors managing their respective programs. The aim of the Access Asia program has been to promote the studies of Asia and Australia across the curriculum in years P - 12.
In December 2005, the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) endorsed the National Statement for Engaging Young Australians with Asia in Australian Schools 
. The National Statement identifies the broad knowledge, understandings, values and skills required to engage with Asia in the context of existing policies and practices in teaching and learning.
A guide to implementing the National Statement for Engaging Young Australians with Asia in Australian schools is the Teacher and School Resource . The resource contains a range of stimulus and planning tools to assist curriculum leaders in schools embed studies of Asia and Australia in their teaching practice and across the curriculum.
The Asia Scope and Sequence for SOSE resource guides teachers in the process of making links between studies of Asia and Australia, the SOSE curriculum and National Statements of Learning for Civics and Citizenship. Available for download at:
Asia Scope and Sequence Units of Work for SOSE provide teachers with a range of practical and exemplary teaching and learning units. These online Units of Work have been developed to provide primary and secondary teachers with scope and sequence advice and links to current studies of Asia exemplary resources.
The Asia Education Foundation website includes information about curriculum resources supporting the teaching of studies of Asia and Australia across the curriculum. These resources can be used in the teaching of Studies of Society and Environment, for example culture, identity, religion, urban and rural life, the environment, politics, economics and the media.
The National History Challenge is a competition that encourages students in years 5 to 12 to use research and inquiry-based learning to discover more about Australia and it's past. Students are the historians and they investigate their community, their family's past or major events that have shaped Australia.
There is a range of National Prizes, including a National Prize for the best entry in the Asia and Australia category.
The Challenge is managed by the History Teachers Association of Australia. For more information and to register for the competition, complete the online registration form .
Queensland Access Asia program delivers a range of one day professional learning programs in regional centres, including:
Access Asia workshops focussing on links between QCAR Essentials and Standards and the Asia Scope and Sequence documents for SOSE, English and the Arts will occur during term 3 in regional centres.
The program will:
Relevant dates are:
: Monday 8 September, McNevin's Parkway Motel, 188 John Street, Maryborough: Tuesday 26 August 2008 at the Cairns Regional Gallery: Monday 1 September 2008 at Ocean International Hotel, I Bridge Road, Mackay: Tuesday 9 September 2008 at the Holiday Inn, 334, Flinders Mall, TownsvilleRegistration: Free. Each participant will receive a resource kit of Scope and Sequence documents and related units of work and is asked to bring a laptop to the workshop.
Catering: Morning tea and lunch provided
For further information contact: Marcia Rouen on telephone 3237 1688 or email: marcia.rouen@deta.qld.gov.au
Country specific workshops are delivered throughout the year.
Aims of country specific workshops:
The Asia Education Foundation coordinates a range of programs that send Australian teachers and educational administrators to the Asian region on organised study tours with pre and post tour support.
Queensland's Access Asia program advertises these Study Tours, invites applications for subsidised places and selects participants. A limited number of subsidised places are available each year.
Itineraries may be accessed on the Asialink website.
Full fee paying participants are also welcome to participate in Study Tours with interested participants invited to contact: Aaron O'Shannessy, Manager, Study Tours & Exchanges, Asia Education Foundation, on email: studytours@asialink.unimelb.edu.au
Programs are:
will be held 3-20 January 2009 (Queensland state school holidays will be Monday 15 December 2008 to Wednesday 21 January 2009). Applications due 29 August 2008.: 4-16 January 2009. Applications due 29 August 2008.: 11-24 January 2009 (Queensland state school holidays will be Monday 15 December to Wednesday 21 January 2009). Applications due 29 August 2008.Preference will be given to those applicants who have not previously received an award to participate in an in-country study program to Asia.
Each successful applicant will be asked to contribute $1500 to the cost of the program and be responsible for all incidental costs.
Applications are reviewed by a cross-sector panel comprising representatives of Education Queensland, Independent Schools Queensland and the Queensland Catholic Education Commission.
Successful applicants are responsible for gaining their visas in time and state school educators must complete and have approved an Application for International Travel.
For further information about applications for subsidised places in Access Asia Study Tours contact:
During the period 2001 to 2007, over 100 Queensland educators have participated in Access Asia Study Tours. For an insight into these Study Tours, read the following Participant Profiles:
, Southport State High School - 2005 Access Asia Study Tour to India, Runcorn State High School - 2005 Access Asia Study Tour to China, Caboolture State High School - 2004 Access Asia Study Tour to India, Capalaba State College - 2005 Access Asia Study Tour to China
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