Posts by Sacha
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Bart Janssen,
A "University of New Zealand" has been suggested several times. With campuses at various sites.
Like that. Didn't it start that way until mid last century?
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Matthew Poole,
True, though hi-res videoconferencing over genuine broadband will help connect colleagues across NZ as well as worldwide.
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Lilith __,
seem to assume that these brilliant and dedicated folk are somehow pulling a con
Seems related to agency theory, a core tenet of neololiberalism that public servants can't be trusted. Infested this country during the 1990s funder-provider pseudo-corporatisation of our public agencies.
Still needs to be properly replaced by a smart progressive government. If not in the aftermath of a huge failure of market regulation, when?
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to NBH,
Thanks. Middleton answers Deborah's objection thus:
In the late 1990s Lord Dearing posited that there was a quantum of population required to generate a world class university – I think it was about 4 million people. On that basis New Zealand could perhaps have reasonable aspirations to have one world class university, Australia five, the UK fifteen and so on. That seems about right.
So if New Zealand is to have one world class university it can only be the University of Auckland on current ratings.
There's perhaps room for further discussion about other answers like creating a virtual high-class network across the best globally-ranked parts of our current universities instead.
However, this reminds me of economic development arguments over the last ten years that Auckland is our only city-region large enough to compete for resources on the world stage. That's not a slight on the rest of the country, just a product of history - the same history that saw this young nation get disproportionate investment in our university network compared with our population.
It's a shame to abandon that advantage that helped make us the richest country in the world by the 1960s, but decades of subsequent poor national leadership may have cost us that already.
Hazeldine also 'borrowed' this point about scale:
It is in New Zealand’s largest city which has a wide range of tertiary provision therefore freeing up the University of Auckland to have a special goal – Massey, AUT, the two Polytechnics (Unitec and MIT(NZ)) and Te Wananga o Aotearoa can provide excellent tertiary education for Auckland to complement the narrower and targeted approach the University of Auckland would be taking.
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to BenWilson,
Using one's own experience and position as a scientist
Please remember there are actual people in this discussion who fit that categorisation, and are understandably likely to take such statements as personal attacks. Not helpful.
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Hard News: Disrupting the Television, in reply to Tom Semmens,
I keenly await the arrival of a rugby mad Russian
there's a short film in there somewhere
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Love that 3rd shot, sir.
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to linger,
and lux is not merely the plural of luck
Applause
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Hard News: " To prostitute yourself to…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
hole lot of fun
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Hard News: Where do you get yours?, in reply to Lilith __,
Some of my friends expressed commiserations that I had to wear glasses, but I was like, “Are you kidding?? Now I can see !!”
have heard similar from some who finally get a wheelchair