WELLINGTON: New Zealand will provide NZ$128 million (US$79.18 million) in extra funding to its universities over the next two years, it said on Tuesday (Jun 27), as a number of institutions struggle with growing deficits and falling student numbers. New Zealand’s globally ranked universities are struggli
WELLINGTON: New Zealand will provide NZ$128 million in extra funding to its universities over the next two years, it said on Tuesday , as a number of institutions struggle with growing deficits and falling student numbers.
Two universities have announced hundreds of job cuts and plans to scrap academic programmes, raising concerns among academics that expertise in everything from chemistry and physics to Asian Studies could suffer.
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