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• Yesterday’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 structural wounds?
• It’s clear the pandemic massively exacerbated the challenges caused by years of funding below inflation rates.

The ‘per student’ funding problem

• But that fairness also reveals the problem with our funding settings.
• We fund research in universities in this way, through baseline funding topped up by contestable grants, but not teaching.
• Yet it will pick up more new funding than any other university by virtue of having the most students.
• The downside of “fairness” is that the funding holes at Victoria and Otago universities will not be covered.

Value and equity

• First and foremost, the New Zealand public owns and operates tertiary education institutions because they deliver economic and social value: value for the student who learns and acquires a qualification; and value for those who don’t attend but will rely on those who do (such as doctors and nurses).
• There is a question of equity, too.
• Some New Zealanders might be able to pay for their children to study overseas, but equal access to education at home should be a fundamental principle.
• But the fact that each university has its own identity, developed over many years in collaboration with its local community, is also something to celebrate.

3 important questions

• The two-year time frame for the review of funding structures is probably realistic, given the complexity of current funding models.
• The interdependence of research and teaching income streams needs to be examined carefully.


Academic freedom is enshrined in the law as meaning universities operate as the “critic and conscience” of society. But their responsibility to community is a useful way of thinking about what that means, in my opinion. Either way, these seem like the necessary questions to ask if we want to get back to basics.

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