Earlier this week, we covered Labour’s disappointing response to our report on zero-percent student loans. Other comment round the traps:
He says the issue is about trade-offs and the government has it about right.
“There’s those on the left that want to give students more stuff and those on the right who want them to pay more for stuff. Our view is that the settings are about right and have broad public support.
“There’s a significant subsidy of tertiary students in New Zealand and it reflects about 80 per cent of tertiary costs, which is quite high given there’s a lot of private benefit from it, but there’s a broad public consensus that government should make a contribution,” he said.
The Herald noted that our report has an ally in the Child Poverty Action…
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