That students share in the burden of paying for their tertiary education is not all that uncommon.
Times Higher Education puts up this graph, from the OECD’s 2015 Education at a Glance report, showing the proportion of private expenditure on tertiary education.
The OECD average has around 30% covered privately. NZ’s figures, as usual, aren’t in the OECD table. But the last numbers I’d seen on it had it around 16% in 2010 – already at the very low end of the table. Eyeballing it, we’d be between Sweden and Slovenia.
And so I get a bit puzzled.
Labour’s pushing for zero tuition fees here, which would push us further out as an outlier on this one. When Oliver suggested that might not be such a great idea, Chris Trotter launched into an attack suggesting that only wild neoliberal Business Roundtable types could oppose free tuition. I guess the…
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