Quote of the week: "If sacrifices are to be made, they must be in areas of lower priority." The Government is not prepared to compromise its social objectives."

With these words, Bob Tizard launched into his 1975 Budget and into a violent attack on petrol, cufflinks. LPs and student teachers. The most relevant section of the budget for students appears on pages 19-21, entitled "Standard Tertiary Bursary". Student teachers have for some time been anxious concerning their position if a Standard Tertiary Bursary (STB for short) were introduced. Their worst fears were confirmed last Thursday evening (further comment on Stanz appears in a separate note).

The last point of NZUSA's ten point proposals concerned who was to negotiate the STB. The news on this front is uniformly bad. The "detailed matters" concerning student teachers are to be discussed by the Government, employing boards and teachers organizations — no mention of STANZ, the Student Teachers' representative body. This reinforces the impression, as does the Minister's refusal to see Alick Shaw last Friday, that the Government is going ahead with the STB without letting students have very much say in the details. This idea is given further boosting by the report in "Labour Leads", a recent propaganda document, which describes chats between the Treasury and the Grants Committee on STB, leaving out both NZUSA and the Education Department.

Amounts in $, STB based on 36 week year. The A bursary item is for all payments over an entire three year course.

From Mr Amos's press statement of Friday, it would seem that tenure for the STB will be under the same conditions as at present (see p.22 of Handbook for an outline of these, and a more detailed explanation of the present situation).

Despite the lack of consultation with the NZUSA on this scheme (most discussions with the Department of Education taking the form of NZUSA heavies talking and the Department listening) these increases are a step forward for University students, and even more so for technical institute students. However, as Lisa Sacksen, the VUWSA President, noted on Friday, the levels are still not sufficient. In Salient I wrote an outline of costs facing students this year. If these are given a broad inflation boost for 1976, Table II can be constructed.

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