In Volume 4 No. 4, we published extracts from “Access to Education: An Evaluation of the Aboriginal Secondary Grants Scheme”. In this issue I have included the report on the evaluation which I wrote for the Aboriginal and Islander parents who participated in the evaluation program; all participating parents were posted a copy. I believe it is important for them to know the results of the research to which they contributed and which, indeed, would not have been possible without their willing co-operation. In this report to parents I have indicated the extent to which the recommendations have been implemented by the Australian Government …B.H.W.

In 1974, the Government asked me if I would find out how well the Aboriginal Secondary Grants Scheme was working, how the children were getting on, and how the parents felt about it. They also asked me to make any recommendations about the Scheme that I thought would make it better.

I worked with a group of people on this because we needed to talk to Aboriginal and Islander secondary students and their parents all round Australia. The map on the back page shows the towns that we visited. In our group, there were Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people who talked to the students and their parents. The Aboriginal people were Mrs Mary King, Mrs Alice Stephan, Mrs Rita Huggins, Mrs Belle McLeod, Miss Marie Callope, Miss Edwina Merrypor and Miss Sue Chilly. The non-Aboriginal people were Mrs Pat Garcia, Mr Bob Lingard, Mr Richard Guy, Mrs Alice Fry, Mrs Marilyn Redlich, Mrs Jan Lord and myself.