Fees Over the Years for Full-Time Students (source: NZUSA.org.nz)
1989 - $300 - 90% of this was paid by the government through a student support system (for most students)
1990 - $1250 flat tertiary fee - introduced by Labour
1990 - Tertiary Institutions were allowed to set their own fees without any government regulation - introduced by National
In the 1990s - an average rise of fees by 13%
2001, 2002 and 2003 - fee freezes by the Labour-Alliance Government
2004 - fee rises
2005 - fee rises
2006 - fee rises
2007 - fee rises
2008 - proposed fee rises...
Helen Clark said in November 1999, the month she was elected Prime Minister, that “tertiary fee rises are crippling our future”. She went onto state, “Labour is committed to first stabilising and then lowering tertiary fees. We want to do that because Labour believes that nothing makes a greater contribution to the equality of opportunity than education.”
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Welcome to Abolish Student Debt!
These days students have a tough deal. Student allowances are only available for a small amount of students and the $150 that is available for living cost is simply not enough to live on. Students are having to compromise their studies by taking on part time work in order to meet these living costs. This Labour government made a step in the right direction by making student loans interest free, however this is not enough!
The aims of this group are (in no particular order):
1 - get student issues on the agenda for the next election
2 - raise the amount that one can borrow to live on
3 - protest against ever increasing fees
4 - promote a universal student allowance
Ultimately we want to organise a nation wide sit in with a lot of media attention. To do this however we need the support of every student in New Zealand who is at least slightly peeved about their situation.
The aims of this group are (in no particular order):
1 - get student issues on the agenda for the next election
2 - raise the amount that one can borrow to live on
3 - protest against ever increasing fees
4 - promote a universal student allowance
Ultimately we want to organise a nation wide sit in with a lot of media attention. To do this however we need the support of every student in New Zealand who is at least slightly peeved about their situation.
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- Lincoln University Students' Association
- University of Canterbury Students' Association (UCSA)
- Christchurch Polytechnic Students' Association (CPSA)
- Otago University Student's Association (OUSA)
- Auckland University Student Association (AUSA)
- Massey University Students' Association (MUSA)
- Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association (VUWSA)
- New Zealand Union of Students' Assiciations (NZUSA)
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1 comment:
The government has now changed the way that Universities are funded. They have capped the amount of government funding given to Universities. In order to make ends meet Universities are having to compromise of staffing and increase fees. If a higher education is to be worth attaining, this has got to stop.
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