Govt ‘has harder line on grants’
PA Wellington The Government had taken a harder line on students applying for hardship grants. Labour's spokesman on education, Mr C. R. Marshall, has said. The Supplementary Estimates showed that $4 million had been saved by the Government because less was given in grants. Mr Marshall said that it had been estimated by the Opposition that 2000 students who applied for the grants got nothing, while 1000 got less than $lO. The hardship grant provides students with up to an
extra $2O a week. However, the Prime Minister, Mr Muldoon; said during the Estimates debate that the level of applications had dropped over the last year, from 15,600 to 12,700. “The applications were down, therefore the expenditure was down,” said Mr Muldoon. The Opposition member for Nelson, Mr P. T. E. Woollaston, said that the drop had shown that the Government was either changing the criteria for the grants or it had succeeded in “starving . the poor out of tertiary education.”
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Press, 13 December 1982, Page 11
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