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Skycity chairman Rob Campbell says consulting firms “tend to define and analyse problems in a manner which can only miraculously be resolved by themselves”.
Veteran company director Rob Campbell says “they’ll be preparing to feast” when I ask him about this new wave of restructures the Government have got coming up. When he says ‘they’ he doesn’t mean the Government, but firms like EY, Deloitte, KPMG and PWC whose names pop up on reports and consulting contracts whenever the word ”restructure” is floated by a government minister. “When you see a ‘working party’ or ‘commission’ there will surely be management consultants or professional service firms busily writing their next contract and issuing invoices,” Campbell says.
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New Zealand First and the Green Party are back taking swings at each other - this time Winston Peters is saying James Shaw isn t a man of his word.
OPINION: The values of democracy and freedom are globally being eroded and tested after decades of improvement. We see the decline this year in America, where rioters occupied Congress; in the military coup in Myanmar; and in China’s crushing of democracy in Hong Kong. The slippage is occurring worldwide according to measures published for 2020 by Freedom House and the Global Democracy Index. New Zealand’s rating has dropped for the first time in 15 years. We have the opportunity to buck the trend this month and restore New Zealand’s reputation as one of the best democracies in the world.
The University of Waikato has revealed a big jump in local enrolments and an even bigger drop in foreign enrolments.
The university would not have to make significant cuts because of the downturn in enrolments, its vice-chancellor, Neil Quigley, says.
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It is starting the year with 1200 fewer international students and 740 more New Zealanders than last year.
The university s vice-chancellor, Neil Quigley, said it would make a deficit this year but the 9.7 percent rise in domestic enrolments would help soften the impact of the fall in foreign students. It s still the case that we re looking at substantially less revenue than we would have expected had we not had the Covid pandemic, he said.