Sarah Henderson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

Are you able to indicate the proportion of students studying teaching, nursing, midwifery and social work who will receive a prac payment? It just seems that the government is trying to work this out on the run. This has been in the pipeline now for many months. It was a recommendation of the University Accord Panel, and it's very surprising that the government doesn't seem to have any idea of how this payment will be administered and how many students will benefit. So, could you provide the information on the proportion of students who'll receive this payment? Also, what will be the total value of the payments made to each of those four categories of students?