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Salient. Victoria University Students' Association Newspaper. Vol 42 No. 1. February 26 1979

Bursaries

Bursaries

There are many levels of activity in which the Education Officer must involve him or herself. Primarily, the Education Officer must try and gauge student demands concerning bursary allowances, and then rally support on campus for these demands. This will involve the EO in organising meetings, debates, fortums, discussions at SRC on various questions relating to student allowances. Traditionally, it has also meant that the EO has had to organise a bursaries demonstration in close co-operation with NZUSA and the local Polytech and Teacher's College Students' Associations;

The EO should also attempt to win academic support for student bursary demands. This can be done in close co-operation with the Student representatives on the various university committees ie. the Faculty and Professorial Boards and the University Council. This means supplying the representatives with detailed information on student finances. The Education Officer sits ex officio on the University Bursaries Committee which has traditionally supported student demands.

The EO should also attempt to win public support for the student demands. This means gaining media publicity in the radios, newspapers and TV outlining the very real case of student hardship. It might also mean the distribution of leaflets to other educational organisations, e.g. NZEI, PPTA, NZCEA, The EO must also initiate lobbying at governmental level This mean? means not only inviting MP's to Varsity to explain their positions at student meetings, but also supplying them with detailed information on students' cases.