‘Release the hounds’ Mr Joyce – let IRL get on with becoming an ATI

By Peter Kerr for sticK

(sticK - 1 May 2012 ) There’s so many ways to say aagghhh, what the hell is going on, that it is difficult to know where to start.

But, it is nearly six months since John Key (no less) announced the high-tech transformation of the science sector was to be kicked off.

Namely - and specifically - that IRL is to morph into an Advanced Technology Institute. We still wait for something, anything, to happen.

We’ve had reviews galore (indeed, it is close to reviews of the reviews) of IRL.

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