DISCOVER how technology has changed long distance education when you visit the Charleville School of Distance Education.

This school is amazing. Its catchment area for students is 400,000 square kilometres!

The tyranny of distance is overcome through on-air lessons, instructional papers and field services to give teachers and students face-to-face interaction.

Teachers take daily phone lessons for about 240 primary and secondary children as well as two lessons a week for about 30 preschoolers. Students’ homes are supplied with specially designated telephones and headsets by the school. Tours are given daily on school days at 9.30am.