Labour has pledged to put $20 million back into adult and community education in its first term in office.
The party's associate spokesperson for education and tertiary education, Megan Woods, was in Wanganui yesterday joining with local candidate Hamish McDouall as they met students and education providers.
The Wigram MP said Wanganui had been hit hard by cuts to community education over the past six years.
Labour would put $13 million into community education funding nationwide in its first two years of government, restoring it to previous levels, and a further $9 million in the years after that. It would also set aside $1 million a year for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses.
Ms Woods said Wanganui had lost 72 per cent of its community education funding - or $1.57 million - since 2009.