Gutting the public sector is the plan.
Rather, the plan is to have an uneducated (gullible) electorate, gutting tertiary education is the means.
Chris Hipkins, as education minister, sold Te Pūkenga back in 2019
Over three years ago now, and it sounds like the project was still nowhere near completion. I’m not sure what the expected time frame of something like this is, but that seems like far too long.
What do you think about the length of time it will presumably take to undo it all again?
No idea, to be honest. I just wish the previous government had been less tentative when it came to getting things, particularly infrastructure, done.
We’d have so many trams, for example.
I agree with that, they were too focused on achieving consensus with people who were not engaging in good faith in the first place, and took the opportunity to use it for predatory delay.
Light rail, He waka eke noa, Fair pay agreements were all examples that of they’d just gotten on, the new government would have had a harder time wrecking.
Te Pūkenga is an amalgamation of polytechs across the country. It makes sense that the major changes have been related to restructuring upper management.
But they have been operating as Te Pūkenga for a while. I even did a course with them and didn’t have any issues.
Organisations are changing almost as fast as the world is changing, I don’t know what the author would call project complete but I’d expect once you merge, rebrand, and expunge the extra management then you’re as much done as you’ll ever be.
Additionally, if this hadn’t gone ahead many polytechs would have had to close due to hemorrhaging money.
Yes, it cost a lot of money, and took a long time. But not doing it would have been worse. And just when it’s starting to come good, let’s gut it because reasons.
