An extra 20,000 university places in 2023 and 2024 will be allocated to marginalised Australians in a bid to tackle acute skills shortages.
The government will fund 20,000 additional university places for students from under-represented backgrounds to address skills shortages in certain industries.Nurses, teachers and childcare workers are among the sectors that will be targeted, Education Minister Jason Clare says."What I've required universities to do is to allocate those spots to young people who are under-represented at universities today," the minister told AAP.
"Aussies from poor backgrounds, from the bush, Indigenous backgrounds, disabled Australians, Australians who are the first in their family to go to university. "I don't want us to be a country where your chances in life depend upon your postcode, your parents or the colour of your skin and that's why I've taken this deliberate action."Mr Clare will hold further consultations with universities ahead of thePublished 17 August 2022 at 11:04am
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