The Price of a Student's Voice ACT went to three student debates, listened to students describe the cost of their own training, and came back with a policy to defund the associations that hosted them. Somewhere in Palmerston North this morning a nursing student is paying for a hospital car park out of a StudyLink loan. She will complete around eleven hundred unpaid hours on the wards before anyone is legally permitted to call her a nurse, and she will complete them while cutting back the supermarket shifts that pay her rent. A midwifery student across town faces two thousand four hundred hours. A social work student faces nine hundred and sixty. In health alone, some twenty-one thousand students hand over in the order of eleven and a half million unpaid hours every year to the institutions the rest of us fall into when we are frightened and unwell. Last week ACT's education spokesperson attended three pre-election debates hosted by student associations at Victoria, Otago a...
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