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Policy
by Dave Guerin
Policy, Management & People
Student Loan Limit The Medical Students' Assn's push for the 7-year cap on student loans to be lifted for medical and dental students has garnered strong support. Their...
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Policy
by Dave Guerin
Policy, Management & People
Massey Advertising A Waikato Times opinion piece criticised Massey’s “New New Zealand” advertising campaign, but the student featured in the commercial and Massey comms director James Gardiner...
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Policy
by Dave Guerin
Policy, Management & People
Fee Increases NZ First’s Tracey Martin says fee rises represent a huge cost to students despite the Government lowering the annual maximum fee movement from 4% to...
The Budget was last week, and post-Budget legislation covered a border levy/tax and student allowances. The Education and Science Ctte will start work considering Budget Estimates this week. Oral Questions...
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Policy
by Dave Guerin
Policy, Management & People
Science Funding Model The Macdiarmid Institute's Director, Kate McGrath, wrote a blog post criticising the Government’s science funding model, and particularly the Marsden Fund process (but also overhead and...
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Funding,
ITOs,
ITPs,
Parliament,
Policy,
PTEs,
Staff,
Students,
Tertiary Education,
Unis,
Wananga
by Dave Guerin
We have conducted a full analysis of the parts of the 2015 Budget relevant to tertiary education, and it is available at our site. The summary of that document is...