Monday, 1 February 2016, 11:17 am Press Release: ACT New Zealand
Labour chooses votes over education
quality
Press release: ACT New
Zealand January 31, 2016. 3:30pm
Since Labour
introduced interest free student loans, New Zealand’s
Universities have tumbled down the world rankings, and ACT
Leader David Seymour says that the two are
connected.
“Labour’s approach to education is funding
for votes, and quality be damned,” says Mr
Seymour.
Since 2006 the University of Auckland has fallen
from 46th to 82nd, and Otago to 173rd from
79th.
“Historical Labour policies such as the Fees
Freeze, Fee Maxima, and interest free student loans were all
politically popular but emphasised quantity over
quality.
“Moreover, students will have no skin in the
game. Right now the deal is: you back yourself, borrow a
quarter of your course cost and the taxpayer picks up the
remaining three quarters. Labour are now saying the
taxpayer pays the lot.
“With Labour everybody will have
a certificate, it just might not be a very good
one."
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