A Bill aiming to end compulsory university student
association membership would simply see the universities
themselves take over running student services and levying in
accordance, association representatives say.
The increasingly erratic and somewhat flaky behaviour of Act
New Zealand and the Maori Party should be giving the Prime
Minister some serious cause for worry.
Proposed legislation to introduce voluntary membership of
tertiary students' associations could damage Dunedin's
tertiary education industry, Otago University Students'
Association president Harriet Geoghegan said yesterday.
Student groups and their supporters are gearing up to tackle
ACT MP Sir Roger Douglas's bid to outlaw compulsory
membership of student associations, saying such a move would
"gut" them.
The Maritime Union is urging the Government to distance
itself from a Bill introduced to Parliament by ACT MP Roger
Douglas seeking to allow for the reintroduction of youth
rates.
