Government Plans For Tertiary Education

Government Plans For Tertiary Education

The Government wants more foreign students and more NZ universities to expand overseas.

Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce told TV One’s Q+A programme that he wants more NZ universities to expand overseas to boost their income.

“More international income, that’s right because some of it can be done offshore. The Australians are pretty good at actually delivering offshore. Take Singapore for example, there's a number of Australian universities that deliver in Singapore in partnership.

“Because that’s all part of New Zealand's internationalisation. Broaden it out from tertiary education for a second. Over the next 40 years South East Asia is hugely important to us. If you go to Singapore all the Australian universities and research institutions are present in Singapore. New Zealand it's literally Massey are the only ones there doing food technology.”

He said universities also need to focus on attracting more foreign students:

“ We have to keep bringing in international students because that’s part of the modern university life. You say look at some of these big Australian universities, quite significant proportions of their income are in the international sphere, and that means they can afford the higher priced academics”

Q+A, 9-10am Sundays on TV ONE and one hour later on TV ONE plus 1. Repeated Sunday evening at 11:35pm. Streamed live at www.tvnz.co.nz

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