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Key regional employers are partnering with the new Port Augusta Technical College to provide fast-tracked career pathways to secondary students living in the state’s north and west.

More than 80 public schools across the state will benefit from a record $42.7 million targeted maintenance program, fixing roofs, resealing bitumen, building fences and upgrading aging infrastructure.

Ensuring more high school students with complex needs continue their studies is the focus of a $48 million investment to be rolled out from next year – delivering a major reform to high schools across ºÚÁϳԹÏ.

A new initiative has been introduced to build autism inclusion in secondary schools following the initial success of Autism Inclusion Teachers (AITs) in public primary schools.

They have toiled over chalkboards, wrestled with cassette players and ever-changing technology, marked rolls and assignments with pencils, sweltered in non-airconditioned classrooms and even battled with snakes.