Polytechs to be for ‘wealthy men only’
PA Wellington Rich, middle-aged men will be the only people attending polytechnics in future if the student loans scheme goes ahead, the Aotearoa Polytechnic Students’ Union says. A draft report by the student loans and charges working party said women, financially disadvantaged people, people on block courses, extramural or part-time students, Maori, Pacific Islanders, disabled people, nurses, postgraduate students, younger and older students and people on personal enrichment courses would be discouraged from attending tertiary institutions.
“We wonder who is left,” the union president, Mr Brett Williams, said. The union opposed increasing student fees. The student loans scheme was inequitable and unworkable, he said.
The Associate Minister of Education, Mr Goff, said last month no amount of protest would stop the scheme beginning next year.
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