Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 5. March 30 1981
Interviewing Difficulties
Interviewing Difficulties
Students commented, in 1980, that they found the questions asked on the forms and at the interview humiliating and an invasion of privacy, and for these reasons, some were not willing to apply for a SHG. The different approaches of various interviewers didn't help. While most students seem to have found their interviewer very sympathetic, a few have commented that their interviewer took the view that students were bludgers, and did his/her best to whittle down students' expenditure figures.