Fees to rise at Canterbury University

DON SCOTT/The Press

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Canterbury University will increase its domestic fees next year by the maximum allowable amount.

Domestic and international postgraduate fees will rise by 4 per cent and international undergraduate fees by 7 per cent for 2011.

Four per cent is the highest domestic fee increase allowed under the proposed annual maximum fee movement. The movement, a Budget 2010 measure, is a simplified replacement of three fee-regulation policies.

Canterbury Vice-Chancellor Rod Carr said the rises were necessary as university costs increased at about 1.5 times the rate of inflation.

University of Canterbury Students' Association president Nick McDonnell said service delivery to students had to be maintained or enhanced to justify the increases.

He had confidence the university was "on the right path" as it was upgrading facilities, allocating more money to research and establishing research institutes. However, the increases were "yet more proof" the Government had to inject more money into the sector, McDonnell said.

The exceptions to Canterbury's fee increases are in undergraduate engineering and bench science international fees, which are respectively increasing by 10 and 5 per cent, and postgraduate business/commerce and non-bench science international fees, which are increasing by 5 per cent.

The fees reflect the new GST rate of 15 per cent, which takes effect next month.

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