Photo: Getty ImagesPostgraduate students are blowing the whistle on what they say are massive cuts to tutoring and casual lecturing jobs at universities. Oldfield said the cuts would make it much harder for postgraduate students to make ends meet because many relied on tutoring for their income. Oldfield said universities needed more government funding, and postgraduate students desperately needed the government to reinstate their access to student allowances. "There have been at many institutions effectively hiring freezes when it comes to tutors, when it comes to part-time and casual staff, and that is affecting postgraduate students massively," he said. He says that would harm postgraduate students' incomes and the quality of education undergraduate students received.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 08, 2021 21:11 UTC