Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 8. April 17 1978

Other Anomalies

Although the abatement is the most unfair of the anomalies, there are many others whose effect is just as detrimental to some students:

Bursaries are only paid to students on full-time, full-year courses. Students on block courses (e.g. 8 or 12 weeks at a technical institute) and 'sandwich' courses (e.g. a period of study followed by practical work experience followed by more study) do not get the bursaries.
Technical institute students doing full-year courses courses part-time are not eligible for fees bursaries. University students are with the exception of Ph.D. students who receive no assistance with fees and pay a total of $300 in fees over a three year period.
Ph.D. students are not eligible for the standard tertiary bursary. Although two-thirds of them receive competitive scholarships, grants or wages, one third get nothing.
Some students have to work as part of their courses and receive only bursaries. Examples are student nurses who have to work "on section" at hospitals as part of their technical institute courses, and social work students at Massey University who have to work on supervised field placements as part of their course.
Students at technical institutes are paid their bursaries fortnightly by direct credit. University students are paid three times a year by cheque (four times a year at Victoria University). More frequent payments would help university students with budgeting.
The Education Department is often placed in the position of being judge, jury and executioner in cases where students appeal against decisions on their entitlements to bursary assistance.