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Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Volume 31 Number 19 August 6, 1968

Link for Overseas Students

Link for Overseas Students

The problems of overseas students in New Zealand may ultimately be the concern of a specific national body for that purpose.

Interested groups at Victoria University are calling for the creation of an Overseas Students' Officer on their executive.

It is hoped that this officer would provide a link between the various groups of overseas students at Victoria who at present belong to unconnected groups of naturals from various countries.

This move was supported by a committee under NZ USA's Overseas Students' Officer, Mr. C. H. Chua, who sees it as the first step towards a national overseas students' body which he suggests will probably be a part of NZ USA.

"There is no institutional basis on which they can solve their special problem." he said.

It has been suggested that the proposed national body could operate as a commission at NZUSA Councils in the same way as the present Education, Finance, Constitutional and other commissions which act as sub-committees of NZUSA and comprise the appropriate executive members from each of the constituent university executives.

This would probably, at first, involve International Affairs officers from the constituents until the move to create specific overseas students' officers had spread.