Dr Liz Gordon: Battles for education | The Daily Blog

I spent the weekend in Dunedin at a hui on the Otago University campus. Even though I never studied there, it resonates with history for me.
It was the early 1990s and the Alliance was the only political party opposing the imposition of tertiary fees. Students were up in arms at the burden that had been imposed on them by the Labour Government and then by the National Government.
Lockwood Smith as Minister had promised in the 1990 election that National would abolish the new tertiary fee.  And he did, but then required the universities to charge instead.
This was a disaster and was the beginning of the clever trick of devolving responsibilities to institutions while underfunding them. We have all paid the price for that.

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