Election 2017 - Party Policies - Education - Tertiary Education
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- Make all post-graduate students eligible for student allowances, as a step towards a fully universal student allowance.
- Increase all student allowances by 20 percent.
- Make buses and trains free for all tertiary students and apprentices.
- Increase funding for tertiary institutions to make sure they are resourced to support students with disabilities.
- Restore the ability of students in long courses to access loans and allowances beyond seven years.
- Read more here and here.
- Increasing living costs support with both a $50 a week boost to student allowances and a $50 a week lift to the maximum that can be borrowed for living costs
- Restoring post-graduate students’ eligibility for student allowances
- Restoring the eligibility of students in long courses, such as medicine, to access student allowances or loans beyond seven years FTE study
- Accelerating the three years' free policy, starting with one year fees free full-time equivalent for everyone starting tertiary education or training for the first time from 1 January 2018, and extending this to three years’ free by 2024.
- Change funding systems to encourage the development of ‘hop on, hop-off’ training to equalise the focus that is placed on completing a qualification and gaining work experience.
- Read more here and here.
- Increase investment in student-led equity initiatives to grow representation of minority and marginalised tertiary students at local, regional, national and international levels.
- Develop a four year zero fee scholarship to target the ‘First in Whānau’ to engage in a Bachelor level qualification programme.
- Invest more in culturally responsive pastoral care initiatives that support students to achieve their tertiary education aspirations and to help them navigate the services they need, including, financial literacy, health and academic preparatory skills.
- Double the numbers of Māori and Pacific students successfully completing a Bachelor degree in three years.
- Introduce a universal student allowance with cost of living adjustment to guarantee a livable income during study, for all tertiary students, including post-graduate students.
- Read more here.
- Better meet the needs of employers by exploring responsive teaching environments that encourage high quality research and industry informed teaching.
- Increasing accommodation support for students who need it most through accommodation benefit increases in the Family Incomes Package.
- Establish a new School of Medicine to increase the number of doctors and medical professionals in our rural communities.
- Increase the value of international education in New Zealand to $7b by 2025; and ensure we attract highquality students to high-quality courses, while ensuring those who come here to study do so on the right visas and with the right intentions.
- Piloting three microcredential courses in our tertiary system to make it easier for people to upskill or retrain without committing to longer, formal qualifications.
- Read more here.
- Introduce the complete Up Front Investment policy which includes a universal living allowance which is not means tested and access to the full accommodation supplement for all full-time students.
- Immediately introduce a dollar-for-dollar debt write-off scheme so that graduates in identified areas of workforce demand may trade a year’s worth of debt for each year of paid full-time work in New Zealand in that area.
- Work with NZUSA and the sector to establish the feasibility of implementing two-thousand ‘First in Family’ tertiary scholarships each year to help those who would be the first in their immediate family to achieve a degree.
- Encourage strategic alliances between industry crown research institutes and tertiary institutions to increase the number of scholarships and government funded research grants available to graduates, universities and employers.
- Introduce, as a priority for all full time students, a universal living allowance which is not subject to parental means testing.
- Read more here.
- Remove tuition fees for tertiary education in New Zealand, accompanied by a push to increase the quality of tertiary education and protect the value of New Zealand degrees.
- Abolish the Student Allowance, as a way to help fund the zero fees policy.
- Align the maximum living costs entitlement with the average rental price in the area a student is enrolled in a tertiary education provider, ensuring that the true cost of living is reflected in the amount available to borrow, rather than assuming costs remain the same for both Auckland and Invercargill.
- Increase the focus on repayment compliance by establishing an expected voluntary repayment threshold for graduated students in work with interest being added to the year, pegged at inflation, but no additional penalty payments, if that threshold is not met.
- Read more here.
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