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Business Round Table Agrees With Student Unions
Monday, 9 October 2000, 11:58 am | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
After years of promoting an elitist education system, Rodger Kerr and the round table have come to their senses and recognised the brain drain that students have been talking about for the last five years. More >>
Polytechnic Education in Danger unless Govt Acts
Wednesday, 23 August 2000, 9:12 am | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
Community based polytechnics offering vocational education could become a thing of the past unless the Government is prepared step in and offer rescue packages for many local polytechnics More >>
Labour and Alliance fail students
Thursday, 17 August 2000, 9:27 am | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
The decision by Labour and Alliance to vote down a Green Party private members bill to restore the Emergency Unemployment Benefit for students is being described as a breach in the relationship between students and the Government. More >>
Cash-strapped University Flouts Government Policy
Wednesday, 9 August 2000, 9:27 am | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
The decision by Massey University to establish a nursing degree at its Palmerston North campus, in direct competition with the local polytechnic’s nursing degree, is short-sighted and flies in the face of Government policy. More >>
Students Applaud Greens Summer Support Initiative
Friday, 4 August 2000, 1:22 pm | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
Students today described a Green Party Bill on student summer income support as a litmus test of the Government’s commitment to remove unjust and discriminatory policies left by the previous Government. More >>
Campus Support Key to Solving Loan Problems
Tuesday, 18 July 2000, 2:43 pm | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
The Government must be prepared to commit extra funding to provide comprehensive on-line face-to-face campus support if student loan processing by Work and Income is to improve next year the National Student Associations said today. More >>
Student Loans:The more you know, the less you like
Monday, 10 July 2000, 9:08 am | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
The student loans scheme is facing a crisis of confidence with borrowers' resentment towards the scheme increasing the longer they are in debt according to research commissioned by Inland Revenue Department. More >>
Fair Student Association Legislation Passes
Thursday, 6 July 2000, 7:05 pm | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
The sorry saga of Government interference in student democracy is finally over with the passing of the Education Amendment Bill today. More >>
Summer Job Sweetener Not Enough
Monday, 19 June 2000, 10:45 am | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
Student leaders are disappointed to learn that the Government has earmarked only $209,000 in extra spending for summer jobs for students and say that the small grant combined with a failure to restore the Emergency Unemployment Benefit will see a ... More >>
Tertiary Institutions could spoil Fee Freeze
Thursday, 15 June 2000, 5:17 pm | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
The National Student Unions are predicting some tertiary instituions will choose to put up fees rather than take the 2.3% Government funding increase following today's Budget annoucement. More >>
Largest Student Debt More Than $130,000
Wednesday, 31 May 2000, 12:23 am | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
According to figures released under the Official Information Act, there are people that have student loan debts so big that they would need to pay the Government around $30,000 just to do their OE. More >>
Angry CIT Students Ready to Face Institute
Monday, 8 May 2000, 9:07 am | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
Students at the troubled Central Institute of Technology are concerned that their qualifications are being devalued by the massive cutbacks at the Institute and are preparing to air their concerns at the next CIT Council meeting. More >>
Students welcome National's focus on allowances
Tuesday, 2 May 2000, 9:41 am | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
Talk of universal student allowances at the weekend's National Party regional conference has been welcomed by the national student union, the Aotearoa Post-compulsory Student Union (APSU). More >>
Students support calls for Government intervention
Wednesday, 19 April 2000, 4:45 pm | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
Students today backed union calls to end the staff sackings that are sweeping through the tertiary education sector. More >>
Extra year of Nursing Training will cost eight
Friday, 14 April 2000, 4:51 pm | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
The recent proposals to extend Nursing Degrees to four years would be disastrous for female graduates and could leave them paying off their student loans for eight more years the Aotearoa Post-compulsory Student Union (APSU) revealed today. More >>
Auckland Grammar Headmaster Gets it Wrong
Tuesday, 28 March 2000, 5:31 pm | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
Claims by the Headmaster of Auckland Grammar School that the government was planning to return to compulsory student association membership have been blown out of the water today with the introduction of the Education Amendment Bill More >>
Student Loan Debtors still likely to leave country
Wednesday, 22 March 2000, 1:46 pm | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
The Labour Party is trying to oversell the benefits of its student loan changes by predicting that students are now less likely to move overseas to avoid debt the National Student Unions said today. More >>
Bank threatening student caught by WINZ bungling
Wednesday, 8 March 2000, 4:05 pm | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
A bank is threatening to close a student's bank account due to WINZ's mismanagement of the Student Loans Scheme, the Aotearoa Post-compulsory Student Union (APSU) learned today. More >>
Student Loans Scheme Perplexes Nation's Best
Monday, 6 March 2000, 5:06 pm | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
The majority of student loan borrowers do not understand the implications of the debts on their lives according to Government research. More >>
Campus democracy to be restored
Monday, 6 March 2000, 11:02 am | Aotearoa Polytechnic Students Union
National student leaders are welcoming the Government's intention to correct problems with student association membership legislation, and restore democracy to campuses around New Zealand. More >>
