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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 39, Number 16, July 12, 1976.
Students Suffer From Anomalies
Students Suffer From Anomalies
Dear John,
I really had to laugh when I read Felicity Sryth and co's letter on "lucrative lazy students". They may be okay but while they're playing their steroes and riding round on their motorbikes perhaps they could spare a thought for:
| a) | PhD students who don't get any bursary. |
| b) | Those students living away from home and receiving only the abated rate of $13.00 a week. |
| c) | Those 6th form students who are [unclear: not] "entitled" to a bursary because their 6th form Certificate marks were not high enough. |
| d) | Those students "unfortunate enough" to suffer under one of the many anomalies in the present scheme, e.g. if you happen to be in the unenviable position of being an orphan then your home is classified as wherever you live, regardless of whether or not your legal guardian lives in a university city thus the orphaned student is doubly penalized by receiving only the abated rate. |
| e) | Those students ineligible to apply for a hardship Bursary because they are not presnetly eligible for a standard(?) Tertiary Bursary. (What insane logic as their ineligibility for a Standard Tertiary Bursary is often the reason for the application for a Hardship Bursary. |
| f) | The many students who receive no bursary because of bureaucratic ineligibility. |
We're not asking Muldoon for an indiscriminate price increase but an increase lied to a realistic student price index. We feel that unless bursaries are maintained at levels where everyone can support themselves at University, regardless of their economic position then education becomes merely the domain of the wealthy,
Yours,
Lindy Cassidy.