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dave wrote a new blog post: Six years to complete a degree or student loans stop 3 months, 1 week ago · View
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 [...]
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dave wrote a new blog post: students’ association for sale! 4 months, 1 week ago · View
Otago University Students’ 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.
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dave and Tiri Porter are now friends 4 months, 3 weeks ago · View 4 months, 3 weeks ago · View
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dave wrote a new blog post: The VSM debate and the Bill of Rights
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 [...]
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dave wrote a new blog post: Hello Welli
This is a blog set up for welli extramural students. There must be lots of you out there who may need some info or advice on advocacy, representation, services or even how to get up in the morning or how to get free stuff..
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dave wrote a new blog post: Two worthwhile websites on tertiary policy
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
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dave wrote a new blog post: Government to change the student loans scheme
Currently any student who gets a student loan doesn’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’ associations called on the government to commit to providing [...]
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dave posted on the forum topic Study Material Digitization. in the group Massey Extramurals:
I once got my admin guide emailed to me on request. Other study guides have been on WebCT. There's no reason why EVERY admin guide can't be placed on every WebCT/Stream supported courses.
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dave commented on the blog post Brash’s 2025 Darkforce Report
Students are not opposed to National’s tertiary education strategy. And students are not opposed to higher fees for education.
It’s a bit rich, Mike, to state, as someone who is not a student, the above. I’m a student. I’m opposed to higher fees for education etc. And I’m one who didn’t get canvassed. -
dave commented on the blog post Brash’s 2025 Darkforce Report
If you are going to criticise those of a certain world view who are funded by the entire student body, Mike, you probably should have done that when you were studying. And those, like yourself, who don’t like interest free student loans, could have at least acted on principle and got a loan from [...]
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dave wrote a new blog post: How to announce $8m tertiary funding “boost” without providing new money
This may be of interest: Ann Tolley makes an announcement with a media release: “$8 million boost for high-performing polytechnics”
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.”This additional funding for 2010, part of the [...]
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dave joined the group Massey Extramurals 8 months, 1 week ago · View 8 months, 1 week ago · View
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dave commented on the blog post National’s Draft Tertiary Education Strategy is a Dog
I understand this daft tertiary education strategy – and it is a little daft, states that polytechnics might be limited to providing certificate and diploma qualifications only – meaning that more people will be lining up to study at Universities. It looks like the Government wants to contain the numbers of students to limit the [...]
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caffeineaddict wrote a new blog post: I have arrived!
Hello everyone, this is my first post on here, we`ll see how this goes…. I also have another blog at Big News, check it out. It’s on current events and politics. Oh, and in case you haven’t already guessed,I rather like coffee.