- Labor promised to build five new technical colleges if elected
- It is spending $1.2 million of Gonski funding on an advertising campaign encouraging enrolment at the first of the five to open
- Despite the campaign, there are so far only 42 enrolments Findon Technical College
"It's unusual for us to use Gonski funding to advertise, but I would say that this particular opportunity, which is a really significant opportunity for young people in South Australia, it was worth it,"he said.
"We need every single dollar in classrooms and hiving that off administratively or hiving it off to advertising campaigns is far from what I would have expected for that money to be spent upon."
"Advertising for new initiatives — such as the new technical colleges — is an important part of telling families, guardians and carers about these new options available to students,"he said.