UNIVERSITY GRANTS
Student Claim Groundless (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 9. Any funds established by increasing University Students’ Association fees would not mean that the Government would reduce its grant to the university, said the Minister of Education (Mr Tennent) in Parliament today. He was replying to a question from Mr H. J. Walker (Govt., St. Albans) who asked if the Minister had seen a report of a meeting of the Students’ Association at the University of Canterbury, at which a proposal to increase the association's fees with a view to providing more teaching staff was rejected because of remarks by the chairman (Mr N. D. Thomson) to the effect that if students raised £40,000, the Government was likely to reduce its grant to the university by a similar amount. Mr Tennent described the associations’ proposal as “novel” and “interesting," and emphasised that if such funds were established, it would not mean a reduction in the grant made to the university by the University Grants Committee.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30258, 10 October 1963, Page 16
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