Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

I am very pleased to be able to tell the member for Grey that, because of the government's higher education reform agenda, there will be an enormous expansion of Commonwealth scholarships all around Australia, truly meaning that in fact thousands of young Australians will get free education for the first time under the government's higher education reform agenda. At the centre of this reform agenda is spreading opportunity to tens of thousands more students—80,000 by 2018 a year will get an opportunity to get a higher education qualification because of these reforms through a number of means. I can report to the House that today University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence announced that Sydney will increase their scholarships from 700 to 9,000 if the government's reform agenda passes—

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