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Student loans
Opinion
February 5
Cuts 'short-sighted' for New Zealand
Georgina Hampton explains how the cuts to student allowances for graduate students are both unfair and damaging to research in New Zealand.
National
January 9
Student-loan dodgers face tough crackdown
The Government plans to hound student loan holders who have gone overseas leaving big debts behind.
National
January 9
Watch for student loan 'freeloaders'
The Government plans to ramp up action against student loan holders who have gone overseas leaving big debts behind.
National
November 30
Students may give up: survey
A survey of New Zealand postgraduate students has found that 40% are thinking of giving up studying because their eligibility for the student allowance is being stripped away next year.
National
July 19
Student loans overpaid $6.4m by graduates
More than 100,000 New Zealanders have overpaid a total of $6.4 million on their student loans.
Editorial
May 4
Reining in student debt
Notwithstanding the very real benefits and social imperatives of helping students from relatively underprivileged backgrounds through tertiary education, the Government's intention to claw back eligibility for student allowances, and to increase the rate at which interest-free student loans are repaid, does address the problem of steadily rising debt.
National
April 4
Student loan holiday time cut
Those people with student loans going on their big OE will have to start repaying their loans after just one year and provide Inland Revenue with a contact in New Zealand to help track them down.
Dunedin
March 22
Student loan concerns
Proposed Government moves to rein in the student loan scheme "in a big way" could ultimately harm the Dunedin economy, Otago Polytechnic Students' Association official Mark Baxter warns.
National
June 1
Student loan defaulters face legal action
Legal action is to start against Kiwis in Australia who have not made any effort to repay millions of dollars in outstanding student loans.
National
May 31
Legal action against expat student loan defaulters
Legal action is about to begin against hundreds of New Zealand expats who have not made any effort to repay millions of dollars in student loans.
Opinion
May 23
Following dream with a student loan
I'm one of the thousands of New Zealanders who attend, or have attended, university as an over-55 "mature student" and incurring a government-funded student loan to pay course fees.
National
April 17
Govt to chase student loan defaulters
The Government is to get tough on New Zealanders overseas who refuse to pay down their student loans and may use court orders to have them repay their entire debt, as part of a package to reduce the ballooning cost of the scheme.
Editorial
April 1
Loans: patriotism or conscience?
How much do some thousands of New Zealanders value their tertiary education?
The Mix
February 18
Costly knowledge
National
September 24
Tighter student loans defended
Tertiary education minister Steven Joyce says he is "comfortable" thousands of tertiary students will not get student loans to continue their studies next year.
National
September 24
IRD reminder over student loans
More than 22,000 overseas-based student loan borrowers on a repayment holiday have been reminded by IRD that have a payment to make by September 30.
National
September 23
MP challenged over retrospective study requirements
Tertiary students who risk losing access to loans for failing over half their papers over two years can appeal for leniency if they show they are pulling their weight, says Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce.
National
August 26
Debt collectors possible for overseas student loans debts
The Government is investigating using debt collectors to recover more from student loan borrowers living overseas.
Dunedin
August 19
Otago students make a note of debt
Student political leader Harriet Geoghegan has enlisted the help of University of Otago students to create an art installation with a political message.
National
May 12
Options considered to tackle student loan debt
The Government remains committed to interest-free student loans but needs to take significant steps to reduce the spiralling costs and use of the scheme, Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce says.
National
May 12
Govt seeks to curb costs of student loan scheme
People who have finished their tertiary studies but are still paying off student loans are likely to be hit with an annual administration fee.
National
May 5
Govt defends new charge on students
Revenue gained by extending the administration charge for student loans will be used to create more tertiary education places, Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce says.
