BURSARY CUTS
UNIVERSITY PROTEST
AUCKLAND STANDS ALOOF
(By -Telegraph..)'.- ■ (Special to "The Evening Post.") r. ■■'■*■•' AUCKLAND, This Day.: A decision not to take part in any, protest against the reduction in Government assistance to University 'bursars was reached by the Auckland :University Council,' when it considered a request from the Canterbury College Council for joint action by the colleges in a deputation of. protest-to the Prime Minister and Minister of: Education., "I do not think We should join with Canterbury College in\ sucfi a deputa : tion," said the president, ■ Sir George Fowlds. "In the present financial condition of the country- it is clear that very substantial cuts must be made all round. While this is quite a severe cut for students, there is no .country in the world which goes quite so far as this Dominion in the v matter of paying students' fees." The council' also decided to' recom-] mend the Education Department to reverse its decision to pay the college and university. fees of training students (in two subjects, including education), and to place such students! on the same basis as other bursars. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 64, 17 March 1931, Page 10
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185BURSARY CUTS Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 64, 17 March 1931, Page 10
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