Over the weekend, I contributed to a panel session run at the Tertiary Education Union’s conference. My notes are copied below.
Notes for address to the Tertiary Education Union’s conference, Voices from Tertiary Education, 23 July 2016.
Dr Eric Crampton, Head of Research, The New Zealand Initiative
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I’d like to thank the TEU for inviting me onto today’s panel. I’m sometimes a token free-market diversity addendum to these kinds of panels, but the TEU has done a great job in having a really diverse set of commenters on our panel’s assigned topic, “A look at the educational needs of society and the economy”. I thank the organisers for that.
I’ll start with a bit of background: I served as lecturer and senior lecturer in the Economics Department at the University of Canterbury from 2003 through 2014 before moving to Wellington to serve as Head of…
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