Kerre Woodham: Fees free hasn't worked, what next?

If the aim of the former Labour government was to get more students from lower income families into tertiary training, it doesn't work.

There is, according to the Tertiary Education Commission who reported to Parliament this week, no discernible evidence that the fees-free —the first-year fees free scheme introduced by Labour— has improved participation from low socioeconomic groups at all. Nada. None.