The federal authorities is placing cash in direction of training in central Australia. The consensus is it is welcome, however it’s not sufficient.
Educators have welcomed the $40.4 million funds injection for colleges in central Australia as “a begin” however say it’s no match for “probably the most difficult” education circumstances within the nation.
The cash might be divvied up between 46 authorities and non-government colleges, which means every college is more likely to get lower than $1 million every.
“For context, it prices us $650k a yr simply to run our buses,” principal Gavin Morris of the community-controlled main and secondary college Yipirinya instructed Crikey. “So whereas that’s an incredible chunk of cash which is admittedly welcome, in the end it’s the price of us operating our buses for a yr.”
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