Lucky you. The situation for students here in NZ is quite bad. We (or I suppose I should say they, as I'm not one anymore) actually get less financial help than people who are collecting the unemployment benifit, which seems a little odd.
The downside to that is students come out university with loans that can take a decade or two to pay off. It wasn't all that bleak for me as, as the profession I'm going into (pharmacy, I'm currently doing my internship) pays well and has a lot of jobs going. There are some students though, who come out with a S30,000 to S40,000 loan for degrees in the sciences, music and the arts, which are never going to pay that well.
That in turn means we're going to lose a lot of young graduates as they head overseas to countries that pay better. For a small country like NZ, that's really shooting ourselves in the foot, but the government just doesn't seem to want to listen.
Best, Raptor
The downside to that is students come out university with loans that can take a decade or two to pay off. It wasn't all that bleak for me as, as the profession I'm going into (pharmacy, I'm currently doing my internship) pays well and has a lot of jobs going. There are some students though, who come out with a S30,000 to S40,000 loan for degrees in the sciences, music and the arts, which are never going to pay that well.
That in turn means we're going to lose a lot of young graduates as they head overseas to countries that pay better. For a small country like NZ, that's really shooting ourselves in the foot, but the government just doesn't seem to want to listen.
Best, Raptor