I have worked in two universities in NZ in non academic roles. The money and resources that are poured into student success is mind blowing. They are pandering to students who can hardly structure a sentence let alone follow instructions. It’s become a middle class stomping ground for students who have no idea what they are doing the bank of mum and dad propping up their children all the way. Now the students that are enrolled in professional programmes are a different beast, they work, they have to, in order to go through. However universities are now money making machines, they were once the elite institutions where the brightest would succeed now, they have been dumbed down with students on scholarships that can barely write, and the some of the academics have never worked in the real world and have become institutionalised they hold the power.

My daughter has just finished at university and her degree, well whilst she loved her study programme, it will be difficult to gain employment in NZ she will have to go overseas to gain employment. Too many degrees are being approved with very little input from the industry to ensure that there is an employment pathway at graduation.