Mike's Minute: NZ universities - Take stock of the rankings and be better

Universities are a bit of a minefield at the moment.

Grant Robertson has gone to run Otago, Auckland has introduced a Māori-related compulsory course which has received surprise and push back, and AUT has been giving out free points in a race-based travel rort, where if you're Māori you get a better chance at travel funding than if you're not Māori.

Professor Jerry Coyne: Unsettling the settler colonial university...

Unsettling the settler colonial university - a “feminist decolonization” of higher education in New Zealand

This link was sent to me by a despondent (and of course anonymous) New Zealander with the comment, “This is now unstoppable in NZ.” It’s from the Times Higher Education site, and the authors are Mahdis Azarmandi and Sara Tolbert, both on the Faculty of Education of New Zealand’s University of Canterbury.

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