ANALYSIS: By Nicola Gaston, University of AucklandThe crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand’s university and wider research sector did not happen overnight. With redundancies wreaking havoc across the university sector in particular, getting new funding into the system should have been a priority in this year’s budget. As former prime minister Helen Clark said last week:It has taken decades to build the current capacities of our universities. That research funding target of 2 percent of GDP — reiterated again in this year’s budget — has been with us since 2017. The relationship between university research and teaching, mandated in the Education Act, should mean that changing research realities have implications for how and what we teach.

Source: Stuff June 22, 2023 05:17 UTC