Despite claims of "indoctrination" pushed by some members of the federal Opposition, Peter Dutton has seemingly dropped his vow to change the school curriculum on the eve of the election.

The Coalition have spruiked a "back to basics" plan for education, which focuses on "explicit instruction and other evidence-based teaching methods", and last month announced a $100 million boarding school infrastructure fund to support remote Indigenous students.

However, after earlier in the campaign arguing students are being "indoctrinated" by teachers and educators, Mr Dutton has dropped any plans to change the curriculum, despite claims to the contrary by Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.

Mr Dutton said on Thursday the Coalition didn't have "any proposals" to change the curriculum, only a month after using his budget reply to argue a Dutton-led government would "restore a curriculum that teaches the core fundamentals in our classrooms".

In March, he promised to rewrite the curriculum to make sure there is "critical thinking, responsible citizenship and common sense" in schools, and implied school funding could be conditional on adopting the curriculum changes.

However, his comments on Thursday were seemingly contradicted by Senator Price almost immediately.

The NT Senator, who has been vocal in her criticism of schools and universities implementing "pure indoctrination," argued "indoctrination" in schools would end under a Coalition government.

"With the conversations I have had with our shadow cabinet minister, Sarah Henderson, there is a plan to ensure that schools are no longer ideologically indoctrinating children, that they are actually teaching education," Senator Price said.

"I know that Peter Dutton is absolutely and utterly all about ensuring our children in this country receive an education and aren't indoctrinated."

Before backflipping on Thursday, Mr Dutton argued: "You have seen other academics that are out as part of protests on the streets, and teachers similarly, and that is being translated into the classroom."

"That is not something I support. I support young Australians being able to think freely … and not being told and indoctrinated by something that is the agenda of others," he added.

After The Australian reported earlier this year claims students in one unit at Macquarie University had some of their grading tied to the "quality of their acknowledgement of country," Senator Price said it was "quite disgraceful," and argued "the whole welcome to country is a reinvention of culture".

"The fact that it is being imposed upon university students in their education institutions, especially when it's being implanted into courses that actually don't have anything to do with Indigenous culture or history or anything like that; this is pure indoctrination. It's not education," she told Sky News.

Welcome to Country and Acknowledgement to Country are distinct things. The former is a ceremony performed by an Elder of the Country they are speaking on; while the latter is delivered by people who are not the Traditional Owners of the land in question, often before meetings or on flights, as an acknowledgment of the Country on which they gather, and its Traditional Owners.

Senator Price argued a Coalition government would not allow the institutions to "continue to push these ideologies onto students".

"It's their [students'] right to have an education and not be indoctrinated," she said.

Senator Henderson has previously argued a Dutton government "want to get back to the basics" around education.

"We don't believe there is any room for activism or ideological agendas in education institutions," she told ABC earlier this year.