What the government's education moves should have focused on
Opinion: Rolling back the user-pays tertiary education introduced by Labour is a priority for the Labour component of the Coalition government.
“When I started protesting against user pays in education 27 years ago, I knew it would be a long way back,” Finance Minister Grant Robertson tweeted on Tuesday.
“The last Labour government started the journey and we are carrying it on.”
The tweet tells you a lot.
It is an unusual thing
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What the government's education moves should have focused on
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