Student ‘should know hardship ‘criteria’

Press, 7 May 1980, Page 11

Student ‘should know hardship ‘criteria’

PA Auckland The criteria by which a student is granted a hardship bursary' should be made public, the principal of the Auckland Technical Institute (Mr I. Moses) has said. “Nobody seems to know We are working in the dark and cannot give students or school-leavers advice,” Mr Moses told _ a council meeting of the institute. , x Of 284 institute students who had applied for the hardship grant, 233 had received replies, Mr Mdses said. Of, these, 50 per .cent had received' the full' §l7 on top of the §23 standard bursary and 12 per cent had beendedined. olfedlo" SekTtrents’

having to sit a means test before they could apply for the additional grant. “Some parents nave refused to disclose their financial situation to their children, the relationship between parent and child may not be good, or the relationship may be adversely affected bv probing into the parents finances,” Mr Moses said. A student representative, Mr P. A. Connell, told the council that some students were suffering hardship because of thtf means; test. ; . because of the means test. He said that while students- were not considered “independent” until, they -were 20, this should perl haps he 1 changed to when ,