Tasmania looks to Federal Budget for education dollars

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published May 2, 2016

Tasmanians could scramble to find news of education funding in the upcoming Federal Budget.

HOBART, May 1 - The island state has some of the nation's worst literacy and numeracy rates, and poor high school ...

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