Bailout, Band-Aid or back to basics? 3 questions NZ's university funding review must ask
- Written by: Nicola Gaston, Co-Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Auckland
The University of Otago: funding boost still won't avert some cuts.Getty ImagesYesterday’s announcement of NZ$128 million in new funding for universities has naturally been welcomed as a badly-needed reprieve. But we have to ask, is this a bailout for struggling institutions, or is it just a Band-Aid on a tertiary sector with deeper...
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