Crush loaded Victoria turns to slum schools

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It’s almost as if they think nobody is watching.

Cramming more classrooms into existing schools would be necessary to save Victoria’s cash-strapped government billions of dollars on building critical new campuses, according to the state’s peak infrastructure body.

Infrastructure Victoria says the state will need to build another 60 government schools in the decade to 2036 to keep up with demand as the population grows by more than 1 million every 10 years.

A 30-year draft infrastructure strategy for the state, published on Tuesday, urges the state government to take a more cost-effective approach to building the next generation of schools by almost doubling their standard size.

It’s not like this is a surprise. It’s the only growth plan VIC has.

From the 2019 Victoria Education Census.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.