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Student protest looks to Budget for change
Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 9:09 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
Students and staff will march on Parliament today to demand lower tuition fees and higher staff salaries in the upcoming Budget. More >>
Student debt: Bigger than King Kong
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 9:48 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
Students’ associations from around the country are launching their student debt campaign in the lead up to the General Election. With total student debt now over $ 7 billion dollars students feel they have a right to claim that student debt is much bigger ... More >>
Worst education policy move in a decade
Tuesday, 10 May 2005, 3:26 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
Students are calling the Government’s request for expressions of interest in a tertiary savings scheme the worst tertiary policy move by any government in over a decade. More >>
Students invoice Mallard over bungled allowances
Wednesday, 4 May 2005, 3:51 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
The New Zealand University Students' Association (NZUSA) has today invoiced the Government for 10 weeks worth of living costs on behalf of the 36,000 students who should have received an allowance this year but didn't. More >>
Labour must increase access to Student Allowances
Monday, 2 May 2005, 1:51 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
Students are today calling on the government to immediately increase access to Student Allowances to the level promised in the 2004 Budget, after new information has found a 23% decrease in the uptake of allowances since 2001. More >>
Students are encouraged to enrol to vote
Monday, 2 May 2005, 11:50 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
Students’ associations are encouraging students to enrol to vote this year in the General Election. More >>
90% of teachers graduate with student debt
Friday, 29 April 2005, 10:19 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
More than 90 percent of new teachers graduate with a student debt, and their total average indebtedness at graduation is $23,187, according to a new report “Teachers in Debt: A Report Card” released today by the New Zealand University Students’ Association ... More >>
Benson-Pope makes up student debt repayment figure
Friday, 29 April 2005, 12:54 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
Students are shocked that this morning on Radio New Zealand’s Morning Report Associate Minister of Education David Benson-Pope made up figures on student loan repayment times for teachers. More >>
Student working hours increase small step forward
Wednesday, 20 April 2005, 9:35 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
Students are today labelling the changes to the number of hours international students can work while studying (from 15 to 20 hours) as a small step towards addressing the needs of these students while they study in New Zealand. More >>
NZ tertiary fees must come down
Tuesday, 19 April 2005, 4:54 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
Students are today demanding an immediate end to high fees and restricted access to student allowances after New Zealand ranked a shameful 15th out of the 16 countries assessed in the Educational Policy Institute’s Global Higher Education Ranking Study ... More >>
Government must fund staff pay increases
Monday, 18 April 2005, 3:07 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
Students are urging the Government to increase funding to tertiary institutions to cover staff pay increases rather than resorting to raising student fees. “Students support pay increases for tertiary institution staff but this should not come at ... More >>
Two thirds of young doctors will head offshore
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 8:40 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
New research released today by the New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA), the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) and the New Zealand Medical Students’ Association (NZMSA), Doctors and Debt: The Effect of Student Debt on Doctors, shows ... More >>
New research on the impact of debt on doctors
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 3:36 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
The New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA), the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) and the New Zealand Medical Students’ Association (NZMSA) will release new research into the effect of student debt on doctors this Thursday at ... More >>
Students applaud demise of tertiary savings scheme
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 1:30 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
Students are today applauding the shelving of a controversial tertiary savings scheme recently proposed by the government. More >>
Women Face Unfair Return from Tertiary Education
Wednesday, 23 March 2005, 9:04 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
The University Graduate Destinations report released today by the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors’ Committee proves that female students face a diminished return compared to their male classmates after graduation. More >>
Students call on Govt to follow the Irish
Thursday, 17 March 2005, 10:56 am | New Zealand University Student's Association
Students are calling on the Labour Government to follow the Irish and re-introduce a system of free education this St Patrick’s day. More >>
Mallard ducks reality of NZ fee increases
Wednesday, 9 March 2005, 6:36 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
Trevor Mallard’s statement today that New Zealand university fees are one third of Australia’s is an exercise in being clever with numbers, and not recognising the detrimental reality of high fees for New Zealand tertiary students. More >>
Debt is forcing graduates overseas
Tuesday, 8 March 2005, 3:30 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
The government has today released a report on student loan integrated data that proves that student debt is forcing students overseas. More >>
Student fee increases fund huge advertising binge
Monday, 28 February 2005, 3:36 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
Tertiary institutions spent record amounts of student and public money on advertising in 2004 at the same time as increasing student fees, according to new AC Neilson figures released today by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA). More >>
Student loan interest rate changes will hurt
Thursday, 24 February 2005, 6:25 pm | New Zealand University Student's Association
Students are today labelling the adjustment to the student loan interest rate components as a ‘cruel money grab’ that will hurt caregivers with student loans who are at home looking after children or family members. More >>
