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Media get information right second time around

Posted 7:08pm Sunday 13th May 2012 by Josie Adams

Criticism has continued in response to the changes to the student loan and allowance schemes announced by Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce earlier this month. On May 3, Joyce revealed that student loan and allowances systems would be overhauled in the national budget, to be released on Read more...

Not Enough Youth in Asia?

Posted 12:51am Monday 7th May 2012 by Bella Macdonald

Over 300 people filled the Colquhoun lecture theatre at Dunedin Hospital on April 26 to hear a panel discuss whether euthanasia and assisted suicide should be legalised. The panel discussion, entitled, “Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: A discussion we need to have”, was prompted by Labour MP Maryan Read more...

Students unrealistic, possibly Oedipal

Posted 12:51am Monday 7th May 2012 by Claudia Herron

New Zealand tertiary students expect to be receiving high salaries and view their mums as the coolest people in their lives, according to a recent Colmar Brunton poll. Colmar Brunton is New Zealand’s most notable market research company, and was established in 1981. The poll of 220 New Read more...

Sign of the coming apocalypse: Drinking age to twenty

Posted 12:51am Monday 7th May 2012 by Staff Reporter

The National Government has expedited the third reading of the Alcohol Reform Bill, which will introduce a raft of changes to the way that alcohol is sold in New Zealand. One of the more noteworthy changes is a split age for the purchasing of alcohol, which would allow 18-year-olds onto Read more...

National: Putting the “n” in “cuts”

Posted 12:51am Monday 7th May 2012 by Charlotte Greenfield

Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce revealed major changes to the student loan and allowance schemes in a pre-budget announcement on May 3. The changes will come as part of the national Budget, to be released on May 24. From next year graduates will have to pay off their loans at 12%, Read more...

Winter of discontent paralyses destitute Auckland students

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Josie Adams

A study released this month suggests that 15% of students suffer from “absolute” financial distress and are unable to afford basic accommodation, food and clothing requirements. The Graduate Longitudinal Study, which produced the findings, sampled nearly 9,000 sutdents in their final year Read more...

Army Never Been to War, Are GCs nonetheless

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Imogen Whyte

Christchurch’s Student Volunteer Army has been awarded the 2012 Returned Services’ Association Anzac of the Year Award, in recognition of its contribution to the Christchurch community following the Christchurch earthquakes. The award was presented on the eve of Anzac Day by the impressively-titled, Read more...

Craccum to remain shit

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Charlotte Greenfield

Craccum editor Thomas Dykes is here to stay after a vote to remove from his position at the Auckland students’ magazine failed on Thursday April 26. The vote was held at an Auckland University Students’ Association (AUSA) Special General Meeting (SGM) to consider a motion of no confidence Read more...

MASSIVE FRAUD! UNIVERSITIES LIE!

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Callum Fredric

Playas gon’ play. The Tertiary Education Union has accused New Zealand’s universities of using dodgy (but legal) tactics to push themselves up the national rankings table. The Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF) is a complicated system for allocating funding to universities based on the Read more...

New Zealand Wastes Bucketloads on “Justice”

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Charlotte Greenfield

It was revealed this week that the legal bill of everyone’s least-favourite tutor Clayton Weatherston has surpassed $440,000 and is expected to rise, with more invoices still to be filed. Because Weatherston relies on legal aid, the taxpayer will pick up this expense. The former University Read more...