News Article: Fees and teaching subsidies rise in New Zealand budget
The Tertiary Education Union (TEC) said the budget had forced students to shoulder the “burden” of maintaining the real value of tertiary education funding. “[It] will limit opportunities, block pathways, increase inequalities and remove the ability of many young people from low-income families to see a future for themselves,” said national secretary Sandra Grey.
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It would be beneficial to see actual evidence from individual universities across programmes and years verifying the following claim (in bold):
The budget offers no additional research funding. Mr Whelan said support for research training had been unchanged since 2019, despite inflation of almost 30 per cent over that period. He said every university had been forced to reduce doctoral numbers to ensure that PhD stipends kept pace with cost-of-living increases.
