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Labour Party's Education spokeswoman Maryan Street - Source: Close Up -
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Slacking students, nonsense courses and student loans are all in the government's sights as the new Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce makes his mark.
Joyce is promising to cut funding to tertiary institutes with poor pass results, a plan that Labour Party's Maryan Street says will be a disaster. She says universities and other providers will simply lower standards to meet targets.
But situations, like the one that allow 123 courses to be available on tourism alone, tells Joyce that the system needs an overhaul.
Close Up spoke to both Joyce and Street live on the issue.
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