Government warned of widening gap between country and city schools

By Pallavi Singhal
Updated October 18 2017 - 9:48am, first published September 24 2017 - 5:17pm

Students in regional and remote parts of Australia are up to two years behind their metropolitan peers in NAPLAN English and PISA maths tests, and this gap is likely to widen in coming years if major funding and structural issues are not addressed, according to the Australian Education Union.

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