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Outgoing Universities New Zealand chair calls for more recognition of higher education’s “crucial role”
New Zealand’s support for universities has been disappointing during the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath, the outgoing chair of Universities New Zealand has said.
Jan Thomas (pictured), who is also vice-chancellor of Massey University, wrote in an editorial that universities were “constantly disappointed by successive governments’ failure” to adequately fund the sector.