The Finance Minister has confirmed claims by Winston Peters that the fees-free university scheme, which covers the final year of tertiary education study for students, will be scrapped in the upcoming Budget.
The New Zealand First Leader made the comments to Newstalk ZB Friday evening.
In a statement this evening Nicola Willis confirmed the comments.
“Ongoing coalition negotiations have led to good Budget policy decisions that further the immediate and long-term interests of New Zealanders.”
Reduce access to education, eliminate the media standards. This can only go well…
It’s an election year, so it will be interesting to see if they feel this is wanted by their voter base (or more importantly, swing voters).
It doesn’t seem like it would be popular, but they must think it will be because they are doing it in the lead up to an election.