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19 Dec 2003 - Student Leaders Deliver Letter to “Santa” Maharey
Student leaders in Christmas costume today delivered a letter to Santa, Tertiary Minister Steve Maharey, asking for more action on student support in the coming year.		 application/pdf
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10 Dec 2003 - Biggest fee grab indictment on Otago, TEC and Gove
Students are disgusted at Otago University’s unjustified fee increase, and are today describing it as indictment on the University, the Tertiary Education Commission and the Government.		 application/pdf
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8 Dec 2003 - Human Rights Commission Okays Student Loan Claim
A ground-breaking claim against the student loan scheme is proceeding, after the Human Rights Commission have agreed that the scheme may discriminate against women borrowers.		 application/pdf
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8 Nov 2003 - Cabinet papers give little hope to students
Cabinet papers released to the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) under the Official Information Act show that the government is trying to “manage” expectations and promote the effectiveness of current student loan policies instead of delivering real change for students and their families.		 application/pdf
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30 October 2003 - Student Support
An Alternative Discussion Document by the New Zealand University Students’ Association, October 2003		 application/pdf
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30 October 2003 - Students Release Alternative Student Support
In two months, students have released what government has been unable to produce after nearly two years – a fair analysis of student loans and allowances in New Zealand with concrete suggestions for improvements.		 application/pdf
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16 Oct 2003 - More proof student loans are damaging key public
Today’s announcement of more student loan relief for groups of secondary teachers is further proof that student debt is damaging key public services, according to the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA).		 application/pdf
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14 Oct 2003 - Students welcome polytechnics working together to
The launch of a new website for prospective students seeking information about studying at polytechnics in the Wellington region was today welcomed by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA).		 application/pdf
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8 Oct 2003 - Student leaders arrested at Massey occupation
Up to ten students have been arrested after the student occupation of the Massey University Registry protesting fee rises.		 application/pdf
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8 Oct 2003 - Students occupying Massey Registry unimpressed with
“Tertiary Minister Steve Maharey could not have chosen a worse time to try and show off about how good the student loan scheme is,” said Fleur Fitzsimons, Co-President of the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA), from the occupation of the Massey University Registry.		 application/pdf
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26 Sept 2003 - More needed to back up no interest while studying
Students have welcomed the government announcement that $240 million in interest charges on student loans has been written off and are calling on the government to take further steps to make the loan scheme fairer.		 application/pdf
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19 Sept 2003 - Women Students Celebrate Suffrage Day and
Women students around New Zealand will be pushing the pay equity message today, dressed in late 19th century costume to celebrate 110 years of women’s suffrage.		 application/pdf
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17 Sept 2003 - Students begin battle against fee hikes
The Victoria University Council meeting cancelled today because students refused to let their Council raise fees is just the beginning of a national student campaign against fee increases, according to the New Zealand University Students’ Association.		 application/pdf
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6 Sept 2003 - Nothing new in student support review
Students are extremely disappointed with the latest in a long line of reviews of student support released today at the NZUSA Conference, and say that it offers no hope to students or graduates. Student representatives are renewing calls for a living allowance for all students as the only way out of New Zealand’s debt crisis.		 application/pdf
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5 Sept 2003 - Farmers protest exposes double standard
Students are calling on Parliament’s Speaker Jonathon Hunt to give equal access to Parliament for protests, after farmers and their tractors went up the steps of parliament yesterday.		 application/pdf
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5 Sept 2003 - Farmers protest exposes double standard
Students are calling on Parliament’s Speaker Jonathon Hunt to give equal access to Parliament for protests, after farmers and their tractors went up the steps of parliament yesterday.		 application/pdf
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3 Sept 2003 - Students file historic human rights claim against
A group of women students are filing a claim that the student loans scheme breaches the Human Rights Act at the Human Rights Commission today.		 application/pdf
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21 Aug 2003 - Government listens to students: better news on fee
Students are welcoming today’s announcement that Labour have stepped away from their fee maxima policy which would have seen large fee increases for thousands of students. However students are still concerned that the amended policy will allow some room for fee increases for 2004.		 application/pdf
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31 July 2003 - Free trade in education already failing students
Free trade is already failing students says the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) as they co-host the launch of the ARENA booklet Free Trade at Any Price.		 application/pdf
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29 July 2003 - Student debt doubles under Labour
Student debt has doubled under Labour and is now past the $6 billion mark according to government response to an official information request from the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) under the Official Information Act. Students are calling on the government to ease the debt burden by immediately introducing a living allowance for all students.		 application/pdf
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11 July 2003 - Students step up fight against fees and loans
The student fight against fee increases and student loans will step up a gear this weekend at the July Conference of the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA).		 application/pdf
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17 June 2003 - New research shows debt
A study released today by the nurses union NZNO and the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) reveals that nurses’ student debt is adding to the workforce crisis in the health sector.		 application/pdf
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12 June 2003 - Yet more info on loan scheme, still no action
Students are calling on Steve Maharey to spend less time on investigating the problems caused by the student loan scheme and more time on fixing them in response to his announcement today to spend an extra $572,000 to improve the information about the scheme.		 application/pdf
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27 May 2003 - Angry students target Maharey
Formerly “student friendly” Tertiary Education Minister Steve Maharey will be facing angry students again today in Wellington, following protests in Palmerston North, Auckland and Dunedin.		 application/pdf
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14 May 2003 - Christchurch protest just
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is warning that today’s student protest in Christchurch will be the first of many if tomorrow’s budget brings fee increases.		 application/pdf
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7 May 2003 - Student campaign against rape and
The New Zealand University Students Association (NZUSA) is re-launching its national campaign against rape and violence 'Thursdays in Black' on Thursday 8 May. This includes a national action of a minute of silence to remember the survivors of rape and violence throughout history. This will take place at 3pm this Thursday.		 application/pdf
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30 April 2003 - New repayment times bad
The average female Masters graduate will take 29 years to repay her student loan, according to new research released today by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA). NZUSA also calculated that the average male Masters graduate will repay his loan in 17 years.		 application/pdf
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10 April 2003 - Lower fees equals more teachers in classrooms
Students are calling on the government to address teacher shortages by setting low fees for teacher education in the upcoming budget.		 application/pdf
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1 April 2003 - Students ask Maharey: Will fees go up?
Students are calling on Tertiary Minister Steve Maharey to publicly respond to the report on fees maxima that he released sixty days ago with a commitment that student fees will not increase.		 application/pdf
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12 March 2003 - Education marketing
Tertiary spending on advertising through AC Nielsen has increased by nearly two thirds since 1999, according to figures released today by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA).		 application/pdf
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25 Feb 2003 - Student loan interest rate to stay at 7%
The headline student loan interest rate will remain at 7 per cent for the year beginning 1 April 2003, Revenue Minister Michael Cullen and Associate Education (Tertiary Education) Minister Steve Maharey announced today.		 application/pdf
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25 Feb 2003 - Student loan interest still
Student loan interest rates released today for 2003/4 are still higher than some commercial interest rates for home loans, say the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA).		 application/pdf
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19 Feb 2003 - Centres of Research Excellence – signed, sealed
The signing of contracts establishing two further Centres of Research Excellence was announced today, with all seven of these new world-class research centres now up and running.		 application/pdf
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19 Feb 2003 - Newsflash!!! – Act MP confirms the blindingly
‘Revelations’ by Act MP Muriel Newman that more New Zealanders have used the student loan scheme to gain an education since 1999 and that total student debt has grown in the intervening years will surprise no one, says Associate Education (Tertiary Education) Minister Steve Maharey.		 application/pdf
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3 Feb 2003 - Business Roundtable misguided on student fees
The Education Forum report released today advocating fee increases and further privatisation of the tertiary education system is backward, visionless and out of touch with public opinion according to the New Zealand University Students Association (NZUSA).		 application/pdf
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28 Jan 2003 - New Zealand University Students’ Association Women
This January women students from around New Zealand will meet to discuss pressing issues. National Women‘s Rights Officer Camilla Belich believes this conference is important because “The biggest pay inequity exists between men and women with tertiary qualifications. This is why I believe conferences like this are vital.”		 application/pdf
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24 Jan 2003 - “Just like America” – Labour’s Secret Plans for
Trevor Mallard admitted that he wants to make New Zealand tertiary education funding ‘just like America’ on Radio Pacific this morning.		 application/pdf
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