The government’s scrapping of the fees-free scheme saves money but doesn’t solve deeper inequalities that shape who enrols in tertiary education in the first place.
- PhD Candidate, NZ Policy Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology
New targets would lift revenue to $7.2 billion and enrolments to 119,000 by 2034. But housing pressure, market concentration and graduate outcomes pose real risks.
Interest rates are due to drop again, and the government is talking up recovery. But unemployment data suggest deeper problems in the nature and quality of the job market.
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