Comments on: Dr Liz Gordon: Battles for education

By: piper

piper — Wed, 05 May 2021 06:06:27 +0000

What Covid what a monster,death more than Sars,eh! capitalism is the serious bus for humanities extinction,exploit and continuous.

By: saveNZ

saveNZ — Sat, 01 May 2021 22:14:21 +0000

Worth reading some great insights to what has gone wrong in NZ. This is what many of my generation went through but seems to have been mostly written out of history.

Ruth, Roger and Me
Debts and Legacies
Andrew Dean
https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/ruth-roger-and-me/

Another note on academic decline.
http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2021/02/another-note-on-academic-decline/

An ‘onslaught of shock and awe’ was supposed to transform Unitec. Instead it sent it into a dive
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/105935899/unitecs-transformation-failure?rm=a

Leading to NZ having the world largest brain drain by 2010.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/7973220/New-Zealand-brain-drain-worst-in-world.html

NZ replaced their indebted workers with neoliberal ‘bums on seats’ mentality in 2016

MUST READ: Migration, chefs and essential skills
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2016/08/07/must-read-migration-chefs-and-essential-skills/

Then came the identity police joining the right wingers to tell everybody that neoliberalism was all a great idea and all the problems are easily overcome by doing more of the same and don’t think too hard about it!

By: saveNZ

saveNZ — Sat, 01 May 2021 22:00:19 +0000

People have forgotten that Generation X in NZ which were the first to pay tertiary fees which were based on eye watering interest rates at the time, compounding daily. I was paying something like 10% interest on my student loan compounding daily, while studying. At the time, many students thought that this law would be repealed and they would never have to pay it back. They were wrong.

This is not even mentioned, forgotten or conveniently ignored in modern discourse. Eventually the government changed the rules that interest was not compounding daily while you were studying and now the first year is free.

But a tertiary generation were screwed, some who will never be able to pay it back.

By: Michal

Michal — Sat, 01 May 2021 20:09:46 +0000

It is a bloody disgrace that students have these fees foisted on them. We can and should be seeing that University and polytech education is fee free. We can afford it but the politicians lack the guts to do this and numerous other things.