Graduate tax rejected
The Opposition has “totally rejected” the idea of a graduate tax. Its spokesman on education, Dr Lockwood Smith, said yesterday that a graduate tax was unfair and would cause a “brain drain” in New Zealand.
It would force qualified students to go overseas to avoid the tax “and generally discourage people from going to university,” he said. Dr Smith also said the Hawke report “raised the spectre of political in-
terference in universities.” . > “The main problem is that universities would be forced to negotiate a charter with the Government. This will make them subject to greater political influence,” he said. ;
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