By affordability I will assume you mean that the government can afford to pay for tertiary education for all those who want to study. At the moment the government limits enrollment partly by making it only available to people willing to pay a fee or take a...
The problem is that we have turned the universities into businesses. The way you fund a university matters. Funding for getting students to pass exams results in lower quality courses where there is pressure to pass students regardless of output. Even if ...
No harsher than the current system of having to pay fees back. Dropping out is actually one of the largest problems in sector where students who drop out after 1 or 2 years end up with without qualifications and large loans. Under this system they would ...
But this is explicitly not "user pays". This is wealth sharing. If you imagine the student as a "user" of education, then they do not pay unless it creates value for them. This is not even a money back guarantee based on success. This is sharing the value ...
That is partly what I wanted to avoid. This is not debt, but an investment share. Rich families do not pay for their kids fees as there are no fees. If a graduate is given a high paying job through their parents connections or current wealth, they still ...
I completely agree with the risk of moving to a career focused system, which is why I felt there has to be a distinction between public and private good. Considering all the activities at a tertiary provider as public good activities does not reflect the ...
You could fund it all from general taxation, as happens in Norway. But then you do have the arguments about solo-mums paying taxes to support lawyers through University. Also there are risks in having businesses direct the flow of graduates. Businesses ...
I personally feel that most of the pastoral care is from having lecturers and tutors who care about students. I would think that changing the way the University is funded would only have small effects on individuals. What I would like to see is a change in...
That is why I suggested 2% per year regardless of qualification. Qualification is not education. The value of an education should be in the activity of learning, not in the piece of paper that you get at the end. Thus there is no incentive to the ...
This is why it has to be coordinated with government. The initial funding would still come from the government as it does now, and the income from students would be phased in over time. I would also like to give graduates even more power by allowing ...
We already have that problem with the current system. There are various potential solutions, pausing the investment repayment period, contracts related to overseas income, and providing careers advice to keep the connection active and relevant. But this is...
Hi Ad, I see the system as best run by government and universities in collaboration, so that the amount is tracked centrally. Thus we would need to augment the taxation system to collect this section of taxation. However for student loans we already have a...
Fonterra? This is a company that is in faster reversal than Fletcher Building. Its flawed policy of ever increasing volume will come under threat from new government policies to protect the environment and as farmers realise the volume game is dumb. Take a...
The telling comment from Winston Peters: “For too many New Zealanders capitalism has not been their friend but their foe, ” Peters said, claiming vulnerable New Zealanders had been left behind while the political elite got richer. “We believe capitalism ...
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 12:30 pm, October 14th, 2017 - 104 comments
Categories: bill english, capital gains, don brash, Economy, gst, john key, labour, tax, winston peters
Tags: gareth morgan, IMF, income inequality, oecd
… that enough is not enough. Simon Louisson formerly worked for The…
Written By: Simon Louisson - Date published: 4:36 pm, September 25th, 2017 - 178 comments
Categories: accountability, capital gains, Economy, election 2017, grant robertson, gst, jacinda ardern, labour, national, Politics, tax, winston peters
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… disappointment at the next election. (Simon Louisson formerly worked for The…
Labour has no one but itself to blame for the dogshit it has stepped into on tax. Why, after nine years in opposition, was it not able to take a fully-fleshed out tax policy to voters? Why on earth does it say it needs yet another Tax Working Group to ...
Bingles: "National Standards show we need to lift our game in maths. So we’ll provide our students and teachers with the tools they need to do that." Hang on mate - you've been in government for the last 9 nine years. If things have gotten this bad, what ...
Looks like the cost of hydro electric power is about to go up. Iwi will get a well deserved payout though.
Great: Vote Labour and you get the wacky greens with their anti-science views on GMO's and agriculture generally. Its almost as if Labour prefers being in opposition.
Yes. Will move for job. Sounds good.
Yep, been a member for 4 years, but at this rate will vote Maori party. I can't believe they've parachuted someone into New Lynn, who doesn't even live in Auckland. Insanity.
Totally agree, 100%. Hopefully Labour is punished for this extraordinary act of nepotism.
These posts are illuminating. Essentially you are all stating that Labour would do poorly in areas that are working class, but because New Lynn is gentrified, all is well. This is why Labour is in such big trouble.
"Mr. Thiel’s admiration for New Zealand is longstanding. “Utopia,” he once called it. He has an investment firm in the country that has put millions into local start-ups." I would have thought someone like Thiel who can bring Silicon Valley closer to NZ ...
Arden has never won an electorate but knows she needs to if she has any hope of becoming leader. Accordingly she is interested in Mt Albert. BUT, because she has a terrible track record in terms of never winning an electorate she knows that she is at great...
Well that's just fantastic. Instead of voting through token motions (as far as I'm aware this has no real effect) how about they get on with the job they're supposed to be doing , transport, housing, and the myriad of other issues that need addressing.
The writer needs to learn thr difference between causation and correlation. Personally I'm stoked to see some traction here...mych preferable to Laboye/Atden waffling on about measuring poverty for 8 or so years.
Why do politicians/political parties only become interested in their communities come election time? Just noticed this in my own electorate with the recent LB elections and the great vanishing Carmel Sepuloni...guess we'll hear from her soon though (maybe ...
You'd think that with all these issues, Labour would be able to get traction in the electorate...but they don't (why?)
Secondary tax is a misnomer. If people apply at the end of the tax year, they get any over-payment on total income back.
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