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By: mikenmild

We have developed at vast expense over the past ten years a system where the government, in the shape of Mr Joyce, can set the priorities for public investment in tertiary education. Mr Joyce has set...

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By: Lee C

Yes Cunningham, it’s people, not hamburgers. People who are prepared to take a loan, work for a better future for themselves and their families, and far from whining about their lot, actually try to do...

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By: bc

Ye gods, vto – if that is the best that you can come up, you have been seriously smacked about by the dumb stick. I think it would take you an hour and a half to watch 60 minutes.

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By: vto

Exactly as I said Farrar, keep dancing on that pin small man. The tide is well out and receding fast

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By: Falafulu Fisi

Quote… Rev Uesifili UNasa, the university’s chaplain and head of Auckland Council’s Pacific Peoples Advisory Panel, said the move threatened Pacific participation in the university, which was...

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By: mikenmild

Perhaps you should stand for Parliament and when elected reorganise tertiary education according to your whims.

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By: Psycho Milt

<i>But if it is the Government deciding where to spend very scarce taxpayer funding, of course the Minister and Government get to decide priorities</i> It may come as a shock, but...

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By: vto

Exactly psycho milt. Farrar and his band of merry gay men are flailing around while their brains have long since fallen out of their heads. The entire spectrum of current right wing philosophies have...

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By: mikenmild

Government policy towards tertiary education has been little changed under the present government. There been a little but of fiddling with the TEC, putting the reliable Wira Gardiner in charge and...

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By: Falafulu Fisi

We don’t need more Gender studies qualified people like Mikemild. That sort of study one can just read it up in a week and be expert in it. The resources should concentrate on real knowledge that lead...

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By: Paul Williams

This wasn’t my fav thread until… And they ignored your recommendations, as though you were just some internet blowhard? Astonishing! …it just so improved. Psycho Milt; made of funny.

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By: BlairM

I agree with Milt for once. It’s not the job of the Minister to tell a University how to spend its funding. Academic freedom and all that. The real question is whether the government should be taking...

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By: Lee C

‘Internet blowhard’ I’d wear tha ton z t-girt. (damn thi ediy buttim)

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By: mikenmild

Falafulu’s problem (well, one of them) is that she doesn’t understand the concept of a university. I know that we have let polytechnics and other training organisation pretend to be universities in...

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By: joana

Graduating engineers in NZ start on 50,000..The same young people can start on about 115,000 in Aussie..Why wouldn’t they go to Aussie?? There is no point increasing funding for engineering and science...

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By: mikenmild

NZ school leavers reach very good standards in maths and science by most international measures. Lower starting wages for engineers in NZ are nothing to do with how NZ trains engineers.

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By: Falafulu Fisi

Mike, the point I'm arguing about is to relegate university courses that are of vocation in nature to where they belong and that is technical institutes and the obvious one in a list of examples of...

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By: Lee C

No he isn’t.

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By: mikenmild

Falafulu Funnily enough, I agree with much of your last comment. My view is that NZ already sends too many students to university in the name of ‘access to tertiary education’. The government would be...

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By: joana

MnM Obviously you have no idea of the standards in Asia..Singapore , South Korea, Malaysia..etc.

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