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Thursday, 20 May 2021, 3:30 pm The New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA) believes that Budget 2021 is a missed opportunity to support all students in Aotearoa. The reintroduction of the Training Incentive Allowance will aid 16,000 students who have, historically, been failed. However, NZUSA National President Andrew Lessells says that many have missed out as “postgrad and mature students are still expected to live on food parcels”. While the Student Allowance will increase by $25 in 2022, this does not keep track with main benefit increases. Lessells says “students faci...
Why are they like this? In an attempt to send student engagement to an all-time low, OUSA has set their semesterly referendum questions to the most boring issues possible. There are only three engaging questions from the total ten questions provided. They are: “8. Should the University have the power to discipline students' for their behaviour off-campus in their own private residential flats?” “9. Should the government allocate Studylink entitlements (Loan Living Costs and Student Allowance) with an expectation that fulltime students will also have a part-time job to supplement this pa...