New Zealand higher education policy
Jobs and achievement the new mantra in a ‘refocus on what matters most’ in the tertiary system
Exercise ‘triggered a lot of work that’s still got to be completed’ but succeeded in being ‘provocative’, according to country’s former chief science adviser
Ambitious review with modest government pickup ‘was not an exercise in kicking the can down the road’
Performance-based research fund also faces overhaul, as Wellington embraces least disruptive and costly aspects of landmark review’s proposals
Thinktank urges change of culture from ‘kindness to fairness’ after identifying rapid rise in number of top marks awarded by universities
New agreement, signed in the shadow of eagerly anticipated reviews, will ‘scale up research’ and generate ‘better value’
‘Share the excitement’, sceptics told, amid conflicting claims over rationale for graduate-entry programme
