Salient. Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 41 No. 3. March 13 1978
Little Room for Expansion
Little Room for Expansion
It is already being widely predicted that the quinquennuim will be the most difficult the universities have faced for years.
With the downturn in the economy and Government policy of keeping a tight rein on public expenditure, it is becoming ominously clear that there will be little room for expansion for the universities in the 1980—85 period.
It is equally clear that if most academics get their way in internal university battles over what goes into the submissions to the UGC, students will bear the brunt of any reductions in university spending.
For example, student welfare services could be reduced to pay for the introduction of new postgraduate courses or specialist staff and equipment which are being demanded by some academic lobbies within the university.