Government Cuts Education Funding As Youth Jobless Rate Climbs
Young people can’t find work, can’t afford study and are leaving the country in record numbers, yet the Government is still cutting education support.
tertiary education
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Greens Slam Fees Free Cuts Amid Youth Crisis
Young New Zealanders are leaving, unemployment is climbing, and the Government’s answer is to make tertiary education harder to afford.
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Setting it straight on user-pays in tertiary education – one letter at a time
Labour’s promise of a return to (limited) free tertiary education appears to be unsettling some, for whom the last thirty years has been dominated by the implementation and bedding-in of user-pays (often gradually, so as not to spook the punters) ; reduced-tax; and minimalist-government ideology;