Looking across the nation, the Labor party has announced a $3.2 million plan that will entail mentoring rural and regional students to encourage more of them to receive tertiary education.
Tanya Plibersek, Labour’s deputy leader and education spokeswoman, will commit to the plan at the Universities Australia conference in Canberra on Thursday where it is also expected she will promise a new commissioner to aide in the increase of rural students in tertiary education.
Plibersek says “A young person from the north shore of Sydney is four times more likely to have a degree than someone in outback [Northern Territory],” adding “Labor will do everything possible to dismantle this education divide.”