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4 Nov 2002 - Students Urge PTE Investigation
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is calling on the government to undertake a major investigation into the funding of Private Training Establishments (PTEs) in light of the details released today on the Practical Education Training Centre in New Plymouth. |
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1 Nov 2002 - NZUSA Presidents Elected For 2003
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) elected its 2003 Co-Presidents and National Women’s Rights Officer today. |
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17 Oct 2002 - Students Back Call For Representation
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is backing a National Party amendment to the Tertiary Education Reform Bill that would put a student representative on the soon to be established Tertiary Education Commission. |
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9 Oct 2002 - Students Forgotten In Politician’s Point Scoring
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is calling on politicians to focus their attentions on the financial situation of students in the wake of the release of the student
loan scheme annual report. |
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8 Oct 2002 - Student Loan Report More Bad News
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is calling for a major overhaul of the student loan scheme in the light of the scheme annual report release today that shows…... |
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4 Oct 2002 - Students Welcome Confirmation of
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) has welcomed the announcement that fees at Massey and Canterbury Universities will be frozen for 2003. |
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3 Oct 2002 - Students Back Allowances Bill
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) expressed its support today for a Private Members Bill moved by the Green Party that will extend eligibility to student allowances to around 16,000 more students. |
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18 Sept 2002 - Student Debt limits access to Mortgages
New research released today by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) shows that some banks are rejecting applications for mortgages based on the size of graduate’s student loan debt despite the Banking Ombudsman and the Government stating that the size of a loan debt should not be taken into account when seeking finance. |
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31 Aug 2002 - New National Post-graduate Organisation Formed
Post-graduate students announced the formation of a new national organisation to represent their interests, at their inaugural national conference held at The University of Waikato over the weekend. |
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28 Aug 2002 - Extension Must Not Compromise Fee
The six week extension to the fee freeze deadline must not compromise holding the costs of tertiary education, say the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA). |
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18 Aug 2002 - 23 years of debt for one year of study
Women graduating with a 1 year certificate from polytechnic will take an average of 23 years to repay
their student loan, according to new figures released today by the New Zealand University Students’
Association (NZUSA). |
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8 Aug 2002 - Students Call for Release of Political Prisoners
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) and the Radical Society (RadSoc) are calling on the New Zealand government to put pressure on the Burmese military regime to release all political prisoners, including student leader Min Ko Naing. |
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30 July 2002 - Greens And United Future Must Fight
The New Zealand University Students’ Association is calling on the Green and United Future parties to make sure that increased access to student living allowances is a central part of their negotiations with Labour to form a government. |
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17 July 2002 - Labour Backs Private Agenda in Public
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is describing the Governments’ “Partnerships for Excellence” framework announced today as a sop to big business at the expense of academic staff and students. |
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17 July 2002 - Students Demand Answers from Labour
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is calling on the Labour Party to publicly state how many extra students will receive an allowance if they are re-elected into government, after both Steve Maharey and Helen Clark refused to make specific commitment on the issue. |
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11 July 2002 - Government Launches Mean Spirited
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is describing the governments move to appeal a High Court decision over dentistry funding cuts as a mean spirited attack on highly indebted graduates. |
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10 July 2002 - Bill English Gets Student Loan Facts Wrong
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is urging National Party leader Bill
English to get his facts straight about student loans after misleading viewers twice on a Sky Television leaders debate last night. |
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9 July 2002 -Students Call for Allowances with Banners
Students around the country will be publicising their case for a universal student allowance to early morning commuters by hanging banners tomorrow morning. |
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7 July 2002 - Students Will Pay if Bill Gets His Way
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) says that the National Party tertiary education policy released today would leave the tertiary sector in an even bigger mess than when they were last in power and will result in students graduating with higher debts. |
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5 July 2002 - Greens Tertiary Policy Good
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is welcoming the Greens tertiary education policy released today, in particular its promise of a universal student allowance. |
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5 July 2002 - NZUSA Conference Media Advisory
The New Zealand University Students' Association (NZUSA) is holding its July conference in Dunedin this weekend. The conference will be primarily focused on tertiary education issues
for the election. |
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5 July 2002 - Students Take On Monster Debt
The $5 billion dollar debt monster will be terrorising students and their families on the streets of Dunedin this Saturday. |
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3 July 2002 - 80% of New Zealanders Support
80% of New Zealanders support the introduction of a universal student living allowance according to a new Colmar Brunton public opinion survey released today by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA). |
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3 July 2002 - Students election countdown begins
Students are meeting this weekend at the New Zealand University Students Association (NZUSA) conference in Dunedin to plan how to get student debt and a universal allowance in the minds of all voters on July 27. |
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2 July 2002 - Labour Tertiary Education Policy
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is describing the Labour Party tertiary education policy as a mixed bag for students that is lacking in specifics, and is saying it
is further evidence of the need for a coalition government to ensure real progress on the issue of student debt. |
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2 July 2002 - Medical Students Criticise Tertiary Education
The New Zealand Medical Students’ Association (NZMSA) is concerned that the Labour Party Tertiary Education Policy fails to directly target indebted and disillusioned medical students. |
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20 June 2002 - Alliance Tertiary Education Policy Sets
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is today challenging all other political parties to match the commitment to relieving student debt announced today in the
Alliance tertiary education policy. |
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19 June 2002 - Government Opens Door to Free Trade
The New Zealand University Students’ Association is concerned that today’s decision by the government to lease the former Central Institute of Technology Heretaunga campus in Upper
Hutt to an international provider of tertiary education, Campus Group Holdings, will open the floodgate for international private providers to come into New Zealand. |
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11 June 2002 - Government locks students out of
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is accusing the government of arrogance in excluding students from its newly announced Tertiary Education Commission. |
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11 June 2002 - Student Loans D Day July 27
The New Zealand University Students’ Association is calling for a coalition government after the July 27 election to ensure the introduction of universal student allowance and the reduction of fees. |
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7 June 2002 - Govt must not ignore signs of
The Government ignores new signs of a worsening junior doctor shortage at New Zealand’s peril, says the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) Co-President Charlie Chambers |
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28 May 2002 - Student Loans a Factor in Junior
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) and the New Zealand Medical Students’ Association (NZMSA) are calling on the government to introduce a universal student allowance and reduce student fees in light of the junior doctor shortage reported in today’s Dominion. |
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23 May 2002 - New Funding Framework
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is welcoming today’s budget announcement that the government will play a greater part in the setting of tertiary education fees, but is adding that they need to ensure the soon to be established fee maximums are set at a low level. |
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23 May 2002 - Student Funding Still Lower than a Decade
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is welcoming today’s budget announcement of a 4.5% funding increase to freeze tuition fees for 2003 but believes that there is no real commitment to the knowledge society when per student funding is nearly $1000 less than it was a decade ago. |
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15 May 2002 - Allowances Number 1 Election
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) launched its nation-wide campaign for universal student allowances today and warned the government that if it ignores this issue it will get a bumpy ride to the polls from students. |
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15 May 2002 - National Conference Brings Queer
This weekend Dunedin is host to the National Uni-Q conference, a meeting place for queer student groups from around New Zealand to learn, plan campaigns and network. The conference is being co
organised by the New Zealand University Students Association (NZUSA) and the University of Otago
Uni-Q. |
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14 May 2002 - Tertiary Strategy Designed For Business
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is disappointed with the content of the new Tertiary Education Strategy, in regard to the prioritisation of the needs of business over all other functions of tertiary education. |
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30 April 2002 - Dentistry students deserve refund
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is calling on the government to refund those dentistry students who paid unnecessarily high fees between 1995-1999 light of today’s High Court ruling in Otago University vs The Crown . |
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18 April 2002 - Pacific Students Deepest in Debt
New figures released today by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) show the average annual borrowing of full time, full year Pacific Island university students is higher than any other ethnic group and points towards actual graduate debts being much higher than previously thought. |
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15 April 2002 - Students say tax cuts equal education cuts
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is calling on Bill English and the National Party to explain how an $815 million decrease in tax revenue in the first year, and $850 million for the next three years, won’t effect their investment in tertiary education. |
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9 April 2002 - Chequebook research threatens academic freedom
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is today warning that yesterday’s threats from the Vice Chancellor to “summarily fire’ members of staff who “talk down” the institution will become common place as universities compete for commercially based research funding. |
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7 March 2002 - Women Tired of a Decade of Discrimination
Tomorrow is International Working Women’s Day, and female students around the country will be using the opportunity to show the way the student loan scheme is especially unfair to women. |
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14 Feb 2002 - Student Loans Harder on Women
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is calling on the government to dump the student loan scheme in light of new research released by the New Zealand Vice Chancellors Committee (NZVCC) that shows women graduates earn significantly less than their male counterparts. |
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23 Jan 2002 - Discussion document to canvass student support
The government will publish a document for public discussion on options for reform of the
financial support provided to tertiary students this year, Associate Education (Tertiary Education) Minister Steve Maharey said today. |
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23 Jan 2002 - Government should dump
Students are calling on the government to commit to dumping the student loan scheme as part of their response to the Select Committee Inquiry into fees, loans and allowance. The government is to look at different options for student support in a discussion paper to be released in May. |
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8 Jan 2002 - Dramatic decrease in number of Maori
New figures showing only 24% of Maori tertiary students received a student allowance in 2000, down from 33% in 1999 are being met with concern by the national Maori university students’ association Te Mana Akonga (TMA) and the New Zealand University Students Association (NZUSA) who are calling on the government to increase access to student allowances |
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1 Jan 2002 - Parental Income Thresholds Adjusted for Inflation
Parental Income Thresholds Adjusted for Inflation, 1992-2000 |
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