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Taxing part-time postgrad study: “Strange, punitive measure”

Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students, that is PhD or master's students, who undertake part-time study instead of full-time face harsher measures, one PhD student told Campus Review.
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Taxing HDR students is certainly not good case for calling ourselves the Smart Country, while impeding what makes us smart, scientific research! There is more taxable income to be generated by successful academics later in their careers than from their meagre stipends while they study, increasing their chances of failure due to financial stress while also trying to have a family. If this is not a good example for killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, I don’t know what is!