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	<description>Just another Massey University Extramural Community weblog</description>
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		<title>Massey students to be stung with 10% hike in costs to study next year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Students at Massey University will be hit hard with the maximum possible tuition fee increase in 2011, as well as increased student services levies, a new scholarship levy, and increased enrolment fees. update listen to more on Checkpoint here, including interview with EXMSS President Ralph Springett. Massey recently approved a 4 percent increase in tuition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exmss.org/caffeineaddict/2010/09/07/massey-students-to-be-stung-with-10-hike-in-costs-to-study-next-year/</link>
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		<title>Six years to complete a degree or student loans stop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steven Joyce wants students to finish their degrees quicker. If they don’t finish them in six or seven years, well, they can fund the degree themselves as they won’t be able to get a student loan. He appears to be blaming students for dragging the chain because student loans are interest free. It’s unclear whether [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exmss.org/caffeineaddict/2010/04/18/six-years-to-complete-a-degree-or-student-loans-stop/</link>
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		<title>students&#8217; association for sale!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Otago University Students&#8217; Association is for sale on Trade Me. Get in quick! Also included in the sale is a student executive and wider network that represents and advocates for students to the University, wider Dunedin community, Government and national media. A student general meeting will ratify the sale.]]></description>
		<link>http://exmss.org/caffeineaddict/2010/03/24/students-associatin-for-sale/</link>
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		<title>The VSM debate and the Bill of Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bill promoting VSM ( voluntary student association membership) is currently before a parliamentary select committee; submissions to the select committee are due at the end of the month. Although there has been a bit of mud slinging and website creating (for example Free Me and Save our Services ) on both sides of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exmss.org/caffeineaddict/2010/03/03/the-vsm-debate-and-the-bill-of-rights/</link>
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		<title>Two worthwhile websites on tertiary policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just wanted everyone who reads this to know that Education Directions and policy progress may be a couple of good sites to keep an eye on with regards to tertiary education issues]]></description>
		<link>http://exmss.org/caffeineaddict/2010/02/23/two-worthwhile-websites-on-tertiary-policy/</link>
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		<title>Government to change the student loans scheme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Currently any student who gets a student loan doesn&#8217;t have to pay interest, nor do they have to pay it back unless they are earning over$19,084 a year. But the government wants to change the student loans scheme. The NZ union of students&#8217; associations called on the government to commit to providing interest -free student [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exmss.org/caffeineaddict/2010/02/21/government-to-change-the-student-loans-scheme-3/</link>
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		<title>How to announce $8m tertiary funding &#8220;boost&#8221; without providing new money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This may be of interest: Ann Tolley makes an announcement with a media release: &#8220;$8 million boost for high-performing polytechnics&#8221; Tertiary Education Minister Anne Tolley has announced that 12 polytechnics and institutes of technology are to provide up to 700 new student places following an $8 million funding boost.&#8221;This additional funding for 2010, part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exmss.org/caffeineaddict/2009/11/26/how-to-announce-tertiary-funding-without-allocating-any-money/</link>
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		<title>I have arrived!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone, this is my first post on here, we`ll see how this goes&#8230;. I also have another blog at Big News, check it out. It&#8217;s on current events and politics. Oh, and in case you haven&#8217;t already guessed,I rather like coffee.]]></description>
		<link>http://exmss.org/caffeineaddict/2009/11/17/hello-world/</link>
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