The fees-free university scheme did not achieve any of its goals, the Prime Minister says, and it is better to direct funding elsewhere. The scheme had given university students their final year of study free, but had now been scrapped. Luxon said   economic growth was key to making sure young people were successful in New Zealand. He said the harsh reality was that the scheme had been "quite a failure" and it was better to stop it and redirect some of that funding to trades training. The government needed to make sure it was actually growing the economy. "The fees programme is not working... it would be absolute insanity to support something that isn't meeting its objectives." Luxon said he wanted to put more support behind trades in New Zealand. Several things were being done to make sure young people were work ready, Luxon said, and there were some programmes which were getting good outcomes. "But again.…