This paper outlines how TASC has been adopted to provide an extension programme through Telematics1
Through the Priority Country Areas Programme National Element (PCAP) both Western Australia and the Northern Territory gained funding for a joint three year Telematics project from 1992–1994.
for a group of high ability primary school students from a remote mining town in Western Australia.
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