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More bad news for unemployed students
Friday, 16 November 2001, 1:35 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is angry that a Social Services select committee report released today recommends against reinstating the Emergency Unemployment Benefit (EUB) for all students who cannot find work over summer. NZUSA ... More >>
TEAC delivers nightmare scenario for students
Wednesday, 7 November 2001, 4:14 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
The New Zealand University Students’ Association is condemning the TEAC report on funding and its unprecedented attack on students, both in terms of student support and access to tertiary education. More >>
Wealth A Key Factor In Tertiary Participation
Tuesday, 6 November 2001, 10:53 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
New research released today by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) shows that students from the wealthiest 20% of schools are nearly five times more likely to go to university than students from the poorest schools. Students from ... More >>
Government denies students allowances
Thursday, 1 November 2001, 12:05 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is calling on the government to immediately adjust parental income thresholds for student allowances which have not been adjusted in ten years, in the wake of a select committee tertiary inquiry ... More >>
Report gets angry thumbs down from students
Tuesday, 30 October 2001, 3:56 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is today calling on the government to make a major reinvestment in student support, despite the recommendation of the Education and Science Select Committee for further research to be undertaken ... More >>
Graduates Will Continue To Leave
Friday, 26 October 2001, 11:47 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is calling on the government to overhaul the student loan scheme in light of increasing evidence that it is forcing many graduates to leave the country. More >>
Treasury Report Urges Fee Increases – Outrage
Monday, 1 October 2001, 11:18 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
A Treasury report obtained by Maurice Williamson under the Official Information Act that urges the government to increase student tuition fees to pay for a tertiary strategic change fund is being met with outrage by students. More >>
Better than expected loan write-offs good news
Friday, 21 September 2001, 10:20 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is today welcoming the government announcement that $64.7 million has been written off student loans in the first year of its no interest while studying policy, which is more than officials or NZUSA had ... More >>
Thousands support EUB – Labour Still Not Listening
Tuesday, 14 August 2001, 3:56 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) will present a petition to Alliance MP Liz Gordon at 1.10pm today on the steps of Parliament, calling on the Government to reinstate the Emergency Unemployment Benefit (EUB) for all tertiary ... More >>
Extra Tertiary Funding Must Mean No Fee Rises
Tuesday, 7 August 2001, 5:53 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
The New Zealand University Students' Association is calling on tertiary institutions to accept the government's fee freeze offer in light of today's announcement that extra funding is being provided to the sector with the establishment of the Transition ... More >>
Knowledge Wave Or Capitalist Tsunami?
Friday, 3 August 2001, 10:34 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
The New Zealand University Students' Association (NZUSA) has echoed the criticisms of other groups that the Knowledge Wave conference is in part trying to turn back the clock to the failed policies of the 1980s and 90s. More >>
Knowledge Society Requires Wave Of Reinvestment
Thursday, 2 August 2001, 11:58 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
“If New Zealand is going to have a knowledge society there needs to be major reinvestment to improve quality and access to tertiary education,” said Andrew Campbell, Co-President of the New Zealand University Student’s Association (NZUSA). More >>
TEAC Direction Good – Fee Hikes Bad
Wednesday, 1 August 2001, 9:56 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is calling on the government to strengthen the desirability test as proposed by the Tertiary Education Advisory Commission (TEAC) in their third report released today, so that resources can be ... More >>
Students welcome private education moratorium
Tuesday, 24 July 2001, 5:42 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is today welcoming the government’s decision to cut public funding to new private training courses and providers. More >>
Unis Can’t Spend Millions On Marketing Campaigns?
Monday, 23 July 2001, 11:05 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
Students are calling for one central agency to be established to promote tertiary education in New Zealand and put an end to tertiary institutions’ wasteful marketing campaigns. More >>
Loan Borrowers’ Income Not Enough
Wednesday, 18 July 2001, 2:32 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
Loan Borrowers’ Income Not Enough To Sustain Fee Rises Nearly 70% of student loan borrowers earn under the repayment threshold, according to IRD statistics released today by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA). More >>
Reconsider Fees Freeze Position - Students Urge
Monday, 16 July 2001, 3:11 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
The New Zealand University Students' Association (NZUSA) is today calling upon the Vice-Chancellors of New Zealand's universities to reconsider their decision to reject the government fees stabilisation offer for 2002. If followed through with, this ... More >>
66% Of Primary Teachers Think About Leaving NZ
Monday, 9 July 2001, 10:47 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) has released research today that shows that 66% of surveyed primary teachers have considered leaving New Zealand because of their student debt, and 28% have considered leaving teaching completely. More >>
Massive Student Loan Repayment Times
Wednesday, 4 July 2001, 10:45 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
Nurses will take 23 years to pay off their student loans, GPs will take 20.2 years and secondary teachers will take 16.3 years according to Ministry of Education calculations released by the New Zealand University Students Association (NZUSA). More >>
Fee Freeze Snowball Starts In Dunedin
Friday, 29 June 2001, 3:39 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is today applauding the decision of the Dunedin College of Education to accept the governments fee freeze offer for 2002, and is encouraging all other tertiary institutions to follow suit. More >>
