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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 37, No. 10. May 22, 1974

Students burden

Students burden

The Fairlie Terrace creche is not a free creche. The charge is forty five dollars per year per child for the small and wrangling service it is able to provide. The redeeming features of Fairlie Terrace are an excellent staff, and a variety of good facilities.

The Students' Association operates a creche that is at present based in the Memorial Theatre Foyer. But although this is a free creche, and is centrally situated, (unlike Fairlie Terrace) it is fundamentally inadequate. Operation of the creche, owing to pressure from the union management and student activities in the theatre, can only take place for three hours a day, from nine am to twelve noon. Facilities are meagre, and the surroundings (e.g. top heavy display boards easily pulled down by children) are dangerous. No finance at all comes from the university for this creche. The Students Association is shouldering this cost that belongs with the university. The Memorial Theatre Foyer creche needs different premises, extended hours and should already have university finance. Even with the extensions to the Fairlie Terrace creche, this alternative creche will continue to serve as a needed addition for student-parents who can ill afford to pay the fees required of them by Fairlie Terrace But even so, users of the theatre foyer creche cannot do a fulltime course and must have lectures in the mornings.