Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 6. April 2 1979

[Introduction]

Following are the essential points of the document which outlines New Policy Proposal 1979/80: an increase in the level of the Stand-are Tertiary Bursary and the special marriage allowance.

This proposal originated in the Department of Education and was drafted by P J Cottier, Senior Executive Officer (Exams, Transport and Bursaries). It received endorsement from D Garret, then Director of Continuing Education and now Assistant Secretary (Tertiary)

The Cottier paper explains that Government's policy is to keep under review bursary levels for tertiary students and outlines the increases in those levels since the STB was introduced in 1976.

The new (1980) bursary levels proposed by the paper are:

	1979 (per week)	1980 (per week)
First three years	$30.00	$39.00
Fourth year on	$33.50	$42.50
Marriage allowance	$60.00	$78.00

In other words, the proposal is for a $9 per week increase for the first two rates and an $18 per week increase for the marriage allowances (nb the figures given are for the rate of the unabated bursary).