{"id":7702,"date":"2020-08-13T06:25:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T06:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7702"},"modified":"2020-08-13T06:25:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T06:25:57","slug":"punitive-approach-for-struggling-students-will-cause-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/13\/punitive-approach-for-struggling-students-will-cause-harm\/","title":{"rendered":"Punitive Approach For Struggling Students Will Cause Harm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said the federal government\u2019s move to punish students who struggle to find their feet at university is all about saving money, and nothing to do with \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/ministers.dese.gov.au\/tehan\/putting-students-interests-first\">putting students\u2019 interests first<\/a>\u2019.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt some students struggle at university, but choosing to punish rather than support them makes no sense.<br \/>\n\u201cWe should be resourcing universities to help struggling students, not denying those students government support to finish their studies.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m really concerned this approach will target and harm disadvantaged students, who are already at greater risk of dropping out.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Liberals are more concerned about saving money than helping students get through university.<br \/>\n\u201cYears of government cuts have prevented universities from supporting at-risk students. Now the government is trying to blame universities and wash their hands of responsibility.<br \/>\n\u201cWe should be investing our time and money in building well-funded, fee-free university and TAFE. Instead, all the Liberals are interested in doing is cutting uni funding, hiking up fees, and punishing students who fall through the cracks,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said the federal government\u2019s move to punish students who struggle to find their feet at university is all about saving money, and nothing to do with \u2018putting students\u2019 interests first\u2019. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThere\u2019s no doubt some students struggle at university, but choosing to punish rather than &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/13\/punitive-approach-for-struggling-students-will-cause-harm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Punitive Approach For Struggling Students Will Cause Harm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}