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News Article: Cash-strapped NZ university plans to open campus in Singapore, sparking anger among staff
An academic who declined to be named cited the failed example of Australia’s University of New South Wales, which closed its Singapore campus after just three months and enrolling 148 students in 2007, as well as the impending closure of Yale-NUS College.
The more that comes out about this investment, the more concerning it appears. Still no details coming from Massey leadership to address these concerns.
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This is a follow up opinion piece to the above article. I am struggling to parse the quoted sentence below and derive any meaning. Anyone want to give it a go? Wrong answers only, please.
While investing overseas and downsizing locally may be painful for some stakeholders, developed economies have witnessed such episodes repeatedly and responded proactively.