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18 Dec 2001 - Survey finds harrassment of
40% of queer students said that they had experienced harassment on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity whilst at university, according to a survey released today by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA). |
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12 Dec 2001 - Student loan report warning sign of huge election
“Student debt will be a massive issue for the country heading into election year,” said Sam Huggard, Co President of the New Zealand University Students Association (NZUSA), in response to the Student Loan Scheme 2001 Annual Report tabled in Parliament this afternoon. |
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18 Nov 2001 - South Island takeover of national student body!
The New Zealand University Students Association (NZUSA) has completed the election of its officials for next year, and it’s a southern takeover, says outgoing NZUSA Co President Sam
Huggard. |
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15 Nov 2001 - More bad news for unemployed
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is angry that a Social Services select committee report released today recommends against reinstating the Emergency Unemployment Benefit (EUB) for all students who cannot find work over summer. |
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7 Nov 2001 - TEAC delivers nightmare
The New Zealand University Students’ Association is condemning the TEAC report on funding and its unprecedented attack on students, both in terms of student support and access to tertiary education. |
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6 Nov 2001 - Wealth a key factor in tertiary participation
New research released today by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) shows that students from the wealthiest 20% of schools are nearly five times more likely to go to university than students from the poorest schools. |
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1 Nov 2001 - Government denies students allowances
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is calling on the government to immediately adjust parental income thresholds for student allowances which have not been adjusted in ten years, in the wake of a select committee tertiary inquiry failing to come up with any recommendations to help fix the student debt problem. |
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30 Oct 2001 - Government report gets angry thumbs
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is today calling on the government to make a major reinvestment in student support, despite the recommendation of
the Education and Science Select Committee for further research to be undertaken into the effects of student debt. |
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30 Oct 2001 - Select committee report more bad
The Christchurch College of Education Students’ Association (CCESA) is
greeting with anger the report of the Education and Science Select Committee Inquiry into Fees, Loans, Allowances and the Resourcing of Tertiary Education as it has failed to provide any concrete solutions to the student debt problem. |
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26 Oct 2001 - Graduates will continue to leave
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is calling on the government to overhaul the student loan scheme in light of increasing evidence that it is forcing many graduates to leave the country. |
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28 Sept 2001 - Treasury report urges fee increases
A Treasury report obtained by Maurice Williamson under the Official Information Act that urges the government to increase student tuition fees to pay for a tertiary strategic change fund is being
met with outrage by students. |
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26 Sept 2001 - PTEs a bad investment for
The New Zealand University Students’ Association has received documents under the official information act with details of 11 PTEs that owe the government money from last year, including one that still owes the government $41,000. |
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25 Sept 2001 - Students go ape over government funding
Students around the country will tomorrow dress up as apes, and call on the government to stop funding public tertiary education peanuts. The stunts are being coordinated as part of a national day of action by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA). |
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20 Sept 2001 - Better than expected loan write-offs good
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is today welcoming the government announcement that $64.7 million has been written off student loans in the first year of its no interest while studying policy, which is more than officials or NZUSA had anticipated. |
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13 Aug 2001 - Thousands support EUB – Labour Still Not
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) will present a petition to Alliance MP Liz Gordon at 1.10pm today on the steps of Parliament, calling on the Government to reinstate the Emergency Unemployment Benefit (EUB) for all tertiary students who cannot
find work over the summer holiday period. |
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7 Aug 2001 - Extra Tertiary Funding Must
The New Zealand University Students’ Association is calling on tertiary institutions to accept the government’s fee freeze offer in light of today’s announcement that extra funding is being provided to the sector with the establishment of the Transition Tertiary Education Commission (TEC). |
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31 July 2001 - TEAC direction good – fee hikes bad
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is calling on the government to strengthen the desirability test as proposed by the Tertiary Education Advisory Commission (TEAC) in their third report released today, so that resources can be shifted to improve quality and access to public education. |
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24 July 2001 - Students welcome private
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is today welcoming the government’s decision to cut public funding to new private training courses and providers. |
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18 July 2001 - Loan borrowers’ income not
Nearly 70% of student loan borrowers earn under the repayment threshold, according to IRD statistics released today by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA). |
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4 July 2001 - Massive student loan repayment
Nurses will take 23 years to pay off their student loans, GPs will take 20.2 years and secondary teachers
will take 16.3 years according to Ministry of Education calculations released by the New Zealand
University Students Association (NZUSA). “Some of our most valued professionals will be shackled |
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13 June 2001 - Universities should stop posturing
The decision by the Waikato University Council to reject the government’s funding offer in
exchange for freezing fees in 2002 has been meet with cynicism by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA). |
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3 June 2001 - Latest student loan figures shocking
Figures released today by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) show that the biggest student loan is now $167,000, $27,000 more than the highest one last year. |
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30 May 2001 - Students back call for more tax
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is today backing the call of the Deputy Prime Minister Jim Anderton for greater government investment in education through high earners making a larger tax contribution. |
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26 May 2001 - TEAC attacks student support
Students are shocked by the attacks on student support proposed by TEAC in a leaked copy of their report on funding. |
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24 May 2001 - Government offer enough to freeze
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is today calling on tertiary institutions to accept the funding increase offered in the government budget. |
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24 May 2001 - Students’ budgets tighter than Governments
Students will be angry that the government has continued to deny its responsibility for unemployed students over the summer months, says the New Zealand University Students’
Association (NZUSA). |
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23 May 2001 - 75% Believe Tertiary Fees Already Too High
An independent survey released today shows that the public won’t tolerate tertiary institutions increasing fees. “Tertiary institutions should be aware that if they reject the government’s fee freeze offer they will be flying in the face of public opinion,” said Andrew Campbell, NZUSA Co-President. |
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21 May 2001 - Vic Uni’s Billion Dollar Debt Threat To Students
Total student debt could grow by an extra billion dollars in the next ten years if all tertiary institutions followed Victoria University's threatened lead and charged students an extra $500 in fees, according to the New Zealand University Students Association (NZUSA). |
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18 May 2001 - Student Loan Debt Hits $4 Billion
Documentation obtained by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) has confirmed that total student loan debt has now passed the $4 billion mark. |
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15 May 2001 - Students Slam Public Funding of
Students are backing the call of the nation’s universities and polytechnics for the government to cut funding to Private Training Establishments (PTEs). |
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10 May 2001 - Graduates Go Green - Student Debt Poison
Graduation begins for Massey University students this coming Monday May 14, where Palmerston North will kick start the first of 12 graduation ceremonies. 2,300 students in total will graduate over the week. |
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3 May 2001 - Government hits low income
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) is calling on the Government to explain the real impact of student loan policy after receiving documents released under the Official Information Act which show that low income or unemployed graduates will see their loans increase at a greater rate than in previous years. |
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7 March 2001 - Students to have no say in the future of
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA ) is calling on the Government to include student representation on the Tertiary Education Commission, the proposed new body to fund, evaluate and monitor the sector recommended in the long awaited report of the Tertiary
Education Advisory Commission (TEAC). |
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14 Feb 2001 - Government should match WestpacTrust
The New Zealand University Students’ Association is calling on the government to cut student loan interest rates to better a deal WestpacTrust is offering graduates. |
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27 Jan 2001 - New research shows more debt
Average student debt has increased by 18% since 1998 and the percentage of debt free students has halved since 1998 according to major new research released today by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA). |
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23 Jan 2001 - Students to kick start tertiary debate
The New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) conference starting tomorrow in Wellington is aiming to initiate public debate on tertiary education structures and funding, while raising the profile of a range of student issues, said the Association’s Co President Andrew Campbell. |
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22 Jan 2001 - Government set to retain
A high ranking Cabinet Minister has announced that the government intends retaining distinct
Colleges of Education for the foreseeable future, despite a report into the issue not being released till February. The move was welcomed today by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA). |
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22 Jan 2001 - Poll shows overwhelming public support
73% of New Zealanders believe that all students should be entitled to financial assistance over summer if they can’t find a job according to a Colmar Brunton public opinion survey commissioned by the New Zealand University Students’ Association (NZUSA) and the Aotearoa Tertiary Students’ Association (ATSA). |
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