Morialta Secondary College students head to university because high school not finished

More than 150 high school students in Adelaide's east will be forced to start their first term at a nearby university campus because their new college remains unfinished amid construction delays.

Despite anticipated fanfare around the $84 million Morialta Secondary College, the SA government said its opening has been pushed back because of building-material shortages, supply-chain problems and "22 days being lost to abnormal increased wet weather last year".

The school, on the site of the old Norwood Morialta High School middle campus, had been expected to open its doors to 168 year 7 students at the start of term 1 at the end of January.

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