http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10803426
If they want to save money, instead of hard cap on student allowances based on number of years, why not (for example) deny it to people with low GPA? Denying allowances to good students wanting to do post-graduate studies, the very people you want to encourage to stay, just seems mind-numbingly dumb.