Seeing as Aunty Helen will be wiping my interest for me i thought it pertinent to once again enjoy the wonderful thing known as living costs, so i dutifully rang studylink happily thinking of the wonderful things i could now afford to purchase.

I excitedly informed the studylink woman that i wished to recieve living costs, she looked up my student status, and then my plans all turned to shit.

Apparently i am not full-time, therefore not eligible. Since when was doing three fucking papers not fulltime?

Apparently you need a grading of 0.8 to be full-time, i have a grading of 0.715, or something stupid like that, so she told me to ring the university and check how much my papers are worth (grade wise) so i dutifully rang the university and the guy put me through to the fees office??? Why i do not know, but they weren't there, so they asked to leave a message, so i hung up.

FUCKERS! :vangry: I want my goddamned money!

Has anyone else had this problem, can you help?

What the hell! I thought part time was like 1 or 2 papers. This is just stupid :(

I thought it was three papers per semester....honestly...wtf.

You're telling me, plus i went on to ndeva to check how much my papers are worth, it didn't say BUT it did say that i am fulltime. Seriously, WTF?

its three papers per semester if you sign up for the whole year at once, or four papers if you're just signing up for one semester at a time.

at least thats what the studylink guy told me back in first year

Ah, that could explain it, i did two papers last semester. I'm considered fulltime by Ndeva, but obviously not fulltime enough to meet the stupid requirements to borrow money that i'm going to have to pay back anyway!

I tried to get an independent circumstance allowance but they don't count work weeks you have completed while receiving a student allowance.

So let's see....

You're obviously poor to qualify for an allowance. You are working to support yourself. But NO INDEPENDANT CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOWANCES FOR YOU.

As soon as I had been working without getting an allowance for long enough they abolished the fucking thing.

Faggots.

I could understand them being picky about free money, but money you have to pay back? I mean c'mon, fucking stupid. And obviously if you are applying for ICA you do need it, they are basatrds.

They're all money pinching (or in this case, witholding) bastards.




Let's spork them.

Spork them?? Sounds painful, what exactly is sporking?

It's hard to get something for nothing? What a cruel world we live in.

A spork is a hybrid of a fork and a spoon.

Sharpened to the right point, they can be very painful when inserted up one's orifice.

I mean, so I've heard.

Anyway, the point here is that yes, it is painful, and thus yes, we should definitely look into it. :ninja: (...imagine he's holding sporks...)

It's never for nothing, there is always some sort of hidden cost involved with everything, actual, metaphorical or whatever, it'll make itself known maybe not today, maybe not tommorrow but someday. ^_^

I had a feeling that's what a spork was, they give them to you when you eat at hello food. We need a spork brigade, sort of like the goon grey-shirts, they can be armed with sporks!

Fuck yeah. The Spork Brigade.

Rawkin'.

I'm going to go and find a picture of a lethal looking spork.

The new 360 degrees structure has something to do with this, I believe.

The 3 papers is part time thing has caught out a lot of people - they really needed to publisice that fact more.

i.e Yeliah & Steveo
:flame:

I've got special happy ending for you!

I'm on the phone with studylink, they're giving me ma money, ooooh yeah! First payment of $150 next week, turns out it was studylink that were the fucktards. They guy i spoke to was so nice though, basically they were operating on a full-year loan case rather than semesterly, they had closed my 2nd semester case which just had to be re-opened. All very confuzzling but yay, happy ending! :)

Good stuff, She Devil! :D

I had the same problem actually. Studylink denied my student loan this semester because I was apparently a part time student: I rang them up, and it turned out they only put in two papers for me weirdly at the place, the dude on the phone was really nic and worked it all out for me too. Viva Studylink!

Viva free-ish money! :P

So what happens now if National gets in?

Apparently next year we'll have to do four papers each semester to qualify as full-time. That's just ridiculous. Luckily they'll keep my allowance up even doing two papers, because you qualify as full-time if it's your last semester. It's all so confusing to ensure most people won't bother. And those people too lazy to bother obviously don't need the money anyway.

In my opinion, full time study is at least 7 papers per year.

FFS 8 is insane. Im not looking foward to doing 4 stage2/3 papers in 1 semester :(

Agreed Steveo. This year i've done three each semester, the first because I arrived three weeks late, and this current one because I'm doing two difficult stage two papers for Spanish (I have not done Stage one in it) in addition to a politics one.

Fuck, that means I still have to do EIGHTEEN more papers to finish my humble doublemajor BA.

i'm doing 4 a semester now but thats only cos i thought you had to do 7 a year and i failed one last semester...

It's fun! fun fun fun! Fun like hernia!

YOU WILL ENJOY IT! IF YOU ARE NOT SUFFERING YOU ARE NOT JAPANESE!!!

I did five last semester and four this one, if you cant the two law papers separately.

It was more than I could handle and my grades suffered as a result.

I'm fucked either way, under labour i'll be slightly less fucked. I will owe, when I finish at the end of this year, about $35,000. My interest under the current scheme will end up being somewhere around $36,000. My total loan would end up costing me over $70,000 and take me over 20 years to pay off........now that is ridiculous, that's why i'm hoping Labour get in!

This whole paper re-structuring they are doing is insane, I don't think the university realise that 4 papers a semester is a fairly heavy workload, especially when you get to stage 3. I can hardly manage two papers a semester!

$70,000. there is no fucking WAY we are getting $70,000 worth of education, or close to. geez, go become a Shamans apprentice and learn the ways of the universe for a foot massage and mug of tea a day.

They need to set fixed prices for Uni, like 10 grand for every course at the end and then you can get part of that cut back for living in NZ for a while afterwards.

Stu McCutcheon is just saving all the extra money to pay for hookers whose arses he will sniff coke off and his next BMW convertible.

The workload is going to stay pretty much the same, actually. The content of all 2 point papers will come down a bit and one pointers will increase in content. Don't worry, the system will look after you

From what little I picked up as class rep last semester (for a paper that I failed :dance:), you'll have to do 1/7th more papers (i.e. 8 rather than 7), but yes, they're cutting 1/7th of the coursework from each paper.

In other words, you learn less in your useful papers, and have to do more useless papers.

Awesome, less work for me!

but how will they be able to cut something out of papers like eco 101...shock horror...no market demand or supply...

They can start teaching you damn pot-heads in commerce that a centrally planned command economy IS THE BEST FOR ALL OF YOU.

EDIT: It has the best gini coefficient result.

No government can allocate the supply of labour as efficiently as the free market, hence why economists, who have a tendency to only look at the economic side of a state while ignoring the social side, tend to favour right wing economics.

There is by contrast, no such thing as a 'free market'.

They're not taking out content, but assessment. So, if you were doing a stage 1 arts paper which had two or three essays that totalled 3000 words between them, and a three hour, three essay exam that is supposed to total 3000 words, making it a 6000 word paper, it will be reduced to 5000 words. i.e. less in the assignments, and a 2 instead of 3 question exam.

It actually adds up to slightly less work, despite the extra paper. Mixed blessing I reckon; more bums on seats, and thus more money in the coffers, and broader, though perhaps shallower, education for undergrads. :shrugs:

Good for the pot heads anyways...

Technically not, but you see my point.