News Article: Falling student numbers to take another bite out of tertiary sector funding

The Tertiary Education Commission brings another round of austerity for universities and Te Pūkenga. The headline talks about falling student numbers, but funding tertiary education institutions based on bums-in-seats is a policy decision, not something written in stone.

The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) will cut its funding to them by $52m as a result of the fall in student numbers, despite Victoria and Otago universities asking the commission to hold off, a new report shows.

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