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Government announces $128m bailout for universities but major job losses and cuts still likely
(lemmy.nz)
~~@Dave@lemmy.nz~~ @SamC@lemmy.nz already posted about this yesterday, but there's been heaps more coverage of this story. This was yesterday:
- Newshub: Government poised to announce major bailout package for universities on brink
- Reuters: New Zealand boosts tertiary funding as universities struggle
- The Spinoff: $128m lifeline for struggling universities to be spread across all institutes
- 1News: 'Throwing money at everything': Uni bail out blamed on Covid response
- The Spinoff: Acting PM teases details of multimillion-dollar university rescue package
- RNZ: Rescue package for universities
- Newshub: Government to throw lifeline to struggling universities, fears 'NZ will be a poorer place' if courses, staff aren't saved
- RNZ: Deputy PM Carmel Sepuloni dismisses criticism government isn't funding universities properly
- Star News: Govt poised to help out struggling universities
- RNZ: Government announces extra $128m for cash-strapped universities, tertiary institutions
- Newshub: Government reveals new funding for tertiary education amid concerns of job losses, programmes cut
- Otago Daily Times: Otago University gets $21m bailout
- The Spinoff: $128m lifeline for struggling universities to be spread across all institutes
- Interest.co.nz: An additional $128 million will be invested into the tertiary sector to mitigate current financial problems
- RNZ: Rescue package welcomed by university sector
- NBR: Universities get $128m relief while funding is reviewed
- Stuff: $128 million boost for struggling tertiary sector welcomed
- RNZ: Political parties back extra tertiary education funding
- Interest.co.nz: Comprehensive review of university funding unveiled as government asks them to co-operate more in the wake of a funding grant to help them through crisis
- RNZ: Luxon on university funding
Plus a few press releases:
- The Beehive: Government provides significant extra support to universities and other degree providers
- Tertiary Education Union: Permanent Solutions Needed After Welcome Funding Correction
- Greens: Tertiary Lifeline Buys Time To Get Model Right
- National Party: Bailout Is Band-aid Economics Of Labour’s Making
But by the end of the day yesterday and this morning, stories were coming out saying major job cuts will probably still go ahead:
- RNZ: Major job losses for universities despite govt rescue package
- Newshub: Tertiary sector welcomes Government funding, but too early to say it will save jobs, programmes
- RNZ: Big job losses at Victoria and Otago universities to go ahead despite more government funding
- Stuff: republished on Stuff
- Otago Daily Times: Govt’s bailout won’t rescue troubled university
- RNZ: Uni staff the 'backbone of this country', suffering in proposed cuts - union
- Otago Daily Times: Govt uni bailout likened to a plaster
- Otago Daily Times: Otago Uni cuts still on agenda
- RNZ: Two university Vice-Chancellors calling for cooperation to end funding woes
- The Coversation: Bailout, Band-Aid or back to basics? 3 questions NZ’s university funding review must ask
And last Friday, before the funding was announced, The Spinoff ran a list of which university courses were likely to be dropped