Boarding boost for Indigenous students
Source: Australia. Minister for Education. Media Release
" The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard has announced that $2 million of funding will be delivered to improve facilities at a boarding school in North Queensland. Mt St Bernard College will receive urgent funding assistance to replace and refurbish outdated boarding accommodation facilities under the Indigenous Boarding Infrastructure program. The college is a co-educational Catholic secondary school that provides boarding accommodation for girls, and is made up of mostly Indigenous students from remote communities. "