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Speaker 1: I always find it amusing when official THEOM is confused

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Speaker 1: and they seem confused yesterday as to why so many

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Speaker 1: of our brightest minds have bailed and gone off overseas.

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Speaker 1: Now this is the group of top achievers at school

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Speaker 1: INCEEA level, are the ones with international qualifications as well.

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Speaker 1: Now more of them than ever have left the country.

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Speaker 1: Officialdom here doesn't know if they're enrolled off shore or

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Speaker 1: here's the critical point why they left. Fortunately I can help, well,

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Speaker 1: at least a little bit. We had one leave, couldn't

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Speaker 1: get out fast enough, went off and studied. We have

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Speaker 1: a niece currently studying offshore. We also have a nephew

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Speaker 1: who left, studied and graduated last year. They were or

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Speaker 1: are all bright, all got top marks, and here is

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Speaker 1: Officialdom's answer, all wanted to get the hell out of here.

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Speaker 1: Studying at an overseas university has become a thing in

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Speaker 1: the last handful of years. In one way, it is

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Speaker 1: no different to the vast ways of other New Zealanders

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Speaker 1: who have set records exiting in the past couple of

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Speaker 1: years as well. In simple terms, the brighter you are,

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Speaker 1: the more prospects you have. Part of your brain power

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Speaker 1: and academics success will have led you to the realization

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Speaker 1: that there is a big world out there with a

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Speaker 1: lot of opportunities. You want a slice of this action. Anecdotally,

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Speaker 1: as regards higher study post secondary school, I can tell

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Speaker 1: you the amount of Marian doctrination at high school these

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Speaker 1: days is not just absurd but counterproductive. Now. I know

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Speaker 1: it's not PC to say that, and I know it's

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Speaker 1: not scientifically fact based, but I know what kids tell me.

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Speaker 1: And even in this current generation, which is far more

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Speaker 1: willing and open to this type of bilingual Mari based

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Speaker 1: approach to learning, by the time you've had five years

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Speaker 1: of it at high school, you're done what they failed

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Speaker 1: to grip when they were hell bent for leather. And

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Speaker 1: this applies to broader life in New Zealand, ranging for

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Speaker 1: Mari names of government departments, the news greetings on the

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Speaker 1: television at night. If you overegg something, you get pushback,

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Speaker 1: which is where we are right now. But I think

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Speaker 1: there also must be some acceptance that is a small

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Speaker 1: insular country at the bottom of the world. When times

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Speaker 1: are tough, the world remains shiny and brains get you access.

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Speaker 1: I would have once said, and this is the really

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Speaker 1: sad part about this. I would have once said most

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Speaker 1: come home, but I look at our wider family, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's actually true anymore. For more from

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