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When investment in graduates is a waste of money

Hidesight: They don’t even know how compound interest works.

Rodney Hide
Wed, 12 Feb 2020

A story in an Auckland newspaper this week illustrated the dire state of schooling in this great country of ours.

Ostensibly the report was how the student loan scheme has trapped and victimised a poor graduate by charging interest, with the implication that this is unfair compared with making

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Rodney Hide
Wed, 12 Feb 2020
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