Sydney University recently gave 600 Year 3s their first taste of campus life as part of a program that hopes to eventually see a larger proportion of them enrol after school. Julie Hare reports.

They're known as the baby bonus generation or Generation Z and they will be the most formally educated generation in history. And recently Sydney University brought 600 Year 3 students onto its campus to give them their first taste of uni life. The students are part of the university's Compass program, designed to attract non-traditional and disadvantaged students to university. As research increasingly demonstrates, the earlier the pro-learning, pro-higher education message is delivered and received, the more likely school students are actively consider university as an option. "Children as...