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Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 40 No. 18. July 25 1977
Educational Aid
Educational Aid,
Aid should not be called aid if it does not result in some form of developmental advantage to the ordinary people of the recipient country. The best form of developmental aid is, quite obviously, the provision of educational facilities, preferably in the recipient country itself, or at least in the donor country.
"Policy changes relating to the numbers of overseas students admitted, and source countries, are designed to achieve a better balance, more closely related to our general overseas aid objectives, in the intake of private overseas students and in the undoubted contribution these students make in our educational institutions."
While the Minister's stated intentions are laudable, in reality the chances of large numbers of students from the Middle East or Pacific coming to replace thise cut from the Malaysian numbers are slim indeed. So far, the effect of the
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[unclear: Gover s] redistribution policy has been [unclear: no red tion] at all, but merely a 38% [unclear: chop otal] number of 1st year private [unclear: overs ents.]