In brief

• High-achieving teens are heading overseas, particularly to Australia, because New Zealand universities are increasingly less attractive.
• Part of this lack of attraction can be attributed to low levels of government funding
  that severely limit the quality of education our universities can offer.
• This lack of funding is regrettable since universities are the major source of
  innovations as well as export earnings.
• But part of the lack of attraction comes from excessive managerialism and
  politicization of our university.

NZ Universities are sidelining academic expertise and failing in their duty of care to
students

As I have argued elsewhere, a key part of the crisis facing New Zealand universities is government apathy and underfunding. We don’t take tertiary education seriously even though it is one of our biggest export earners and typically a key driver of productivity.

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