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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 3. 14th March 1973

Continuing Education

Continuing Education

A Labour Government will ensure the availability to all New Zealanders of forms of continuing education at Community Colleges, Universities and allied institutions according to the requirements and background of the students. All students completing a general education at secondary school will be considered eligible for entrance to tertiary levels at present institutions such as Teachers' Colleges, Technical Institutes or Universities, and also to the proposed Community Colleges.

1.Community colleges will be established to increase the availability of continuing education, especially in provincial centres. Their form and functions will depend on the particular requirements of the local community.
2.In some cases Community Colleges will result from the extension and development of present Technical Institutes.
3.A Labour Government will ease movement of students between institutions such as Universities, Technical Institutes, Teachers' Colleges and proposed Community Colleges.
4.A standard bursary system will be developed for all students in continuing education institutions to provide adequate living allowances, taking into account the length and cost of particular courses. The special needs of married students will be recognised.
5.Assistance will be extended to encourage part-time students who do not receive sufficient benefits from the present bursary system. Universities will be encouraged to make available a wider range of subjects to those working for a degree extramurally and to afford greater opportunities to them to complete their degrees at University.
6.Building programmes for continuing education will be accelerated to meet the rapid expansion of student numbers to ensure that qualified students will not be denied entry because of lack of room. Limitations on entry to classes will be reviewed.
7.In anticipation of major and important reforms in continuing education, a Labour Government will work to provide reasonable residential accommodation for all tertiary educational institutions.
8.Consideration will be given to the provision of residential centres for continuing education, paying particular attention to the need for facilities of this kind for special groups willing to engage in a broad range of studies, such as management and industrial relations.
9.Staff salaries will be kept under regular review.
10.A Labour Government will make available, in increasing amounts, money to support research projects at our universities, to meet the cost of sophisticated equipment, and to extend the boundaries of knowledge.
11.Labour will promote the development of courses for trained personnel to assist in such fields as medicine, social welfare and vocational guidance.
12.Attention will be given to the imaginative development of training and retraining of the work-force, especially in areas of redundancy and where changing patterns of production demand a change or upgrading of skills.
13.Labour places great faith in encouraging people to increase their knowledge and opportunities through their own initiative. Adult education classes will be increased to meet the demand, and attendance fees will be reduced to a level which will encourage greater participation.

Because of the rapid advance in knowledge, and the equally rapid developments in social change, the task of education has become and will continue to be more complex and challenging.

In order to take account of this and also generally to provide opportunities for all interested in education to assist progress. Labour will call an educational development conference as soon as practicable after becoming the Government and invitations will be extended to overseas experts from a wide range of countries.