Students moved to rented office building in response to overcrowding at Melbourne public school

Victorian government defends temporary' campus for University High year 9 pupils amid increase in enrolments

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Victoria's education minister has defended a decision to move hundreds of students from an overcrowded inner-Melbourne high school into a rented CBD office building, describing it as a temporary" solution.

University High School's principal, Ciar Foster, wrote to parents on Monday to inform them that due to a significant enrolment increase in recent years" a temporary campus would be established at 399 Lonsdale Street under a seven-year lease agreement.

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