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Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 40 No. 17. July 18 1977

Government Hypocrisy

Government Hypocrisy

As to the redistribution, Lisa exposed the intentions of the government by noting that so far there had been an increase of only three students from the South Pacific and none from the Middle East. At the same time there are no moves whatsoever be the government to provide the facilities necessary for the admission of students from the Middle East. She also pointed out the lack of government consultation with the Universities, the OSAC or any student bodies concerned. If the government is really interested in aiding developing countries (as it says it is) why has it made this drastic cut in the number of overseas students without any prior consultation?

James Movik went on to point out the sucess of the other sampuses. He said that overseas students are mainly used to 'gap-fill' the classes in all the faculties except those in Architecture and Medicine. He said that he cannot understand why NZ should spend NZ$21 m to maintain her armed forces in Singapore, except perhaps to protect her trade there!

He criticised the Latos Test which he says is now used as a tool to screen overseas students. Latos has now totally lost its original aim of being diagonistic, i.e. and aid in helping the selection of overseas students entrants and also an aid in identifying overseas students problems areas with a mind to prividing extra training therein. James then pointed out the injustice of forcing students who have to pass NZUE, Bursary or their equivalent such as Cambridge High School Cert. to sit Latos. His words that "it seems that we cannot be trusted to speak English" brought laughter from the floor and brought the forum to a close.