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Speaker 1: Universities a little bit of a mine field at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Grant Robinson's gone to run a targo. Of course, Auckland's

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Speaker 1: introduced to MARI related compulsory course, which has received surprise

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Speaker 1: and a lot of pushback. Aut we've told you about this.

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Speaker 1: They've been giving out free points in a race based

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Speaker 1: travel wrought, whereas if you're Maori you get a better

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Speaker 1: chance of travel funding than if you're not Mari. So

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Speaker 1: when the latest university rankings were released as they were

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Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon, the facto Targo is now at its lowest

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Speaker 1: ranking ever will come as a good chance to offer

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Speaker 1: a decent serve to old Grant. Can't run an economy,

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Speaker 1: can't run a yuni. Auckland was another who fell out

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Speaker 1: of the top one hundred and fifty for the first time,

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Speaker 1: so once again a chance to have a crack. There

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Speaker 1: are other rankings, and depending on which ones you look

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Speaker 1: at depends on how they're judged. Overall, you can argue

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Speaker 1: we are not particularly high up in global terms. Auckland

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Speaker 1: as our top facility outside the top one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty doesn't sound very encouraging, does it, do You know why?

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Speaker 1: Because it isn't a Targo is so far down the

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Speaker 1: list now they don't even rank them specifically. It's just

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Speaker 1: a band, and they've gone from the three hundred and

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Speaker 1: one to three hundred and fifty band down to the

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Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty one to four hundred band, so

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Speaker 1: they might be three hundred and ninety ninth in the world.

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Speaker 1: Surely some reputational work to be done there. Otago I

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Speaker 1: note defended themselves by saying, one they were disappointed, but

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Speaker 1: two no New Zealand University had improved, sort of in

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Speaker 1: a well we're all a bit useless then, aren't we

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Speaker 1: kind of way. Having had a little bit of experience

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Speaker 1: with universities these past few years, two of our five

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Speaker 1: kids have or are attending, and a third is about

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Speaker 1: to go. The unmistakable reality that smacks you in the

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Speaker 1: face is the wokeness of it all, the stench of

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Speaker 1: indoctrination about the place these days. They're they'ret to fill

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Speaker 1: your head basically with the stuff they believe to be correct.

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Speaker 1: You think you're their way, or basically you're wrong. A

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Speaker 1: lot of it's race based, and it's very very unappealing.

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Speaker 1: Mind you, I'm older, maybe young kids lap this stuff up,

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Speaker 1: or or think they lap it up until they're mature

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Speaker 1: a bit. But even the teaching brigade at some of

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Speaker 1: these places have voiced their concerns around freedom of speech,

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Speaker 1: and when you add the concerns to the rankings, the

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Speaker 1: overall picture painted is not flattering. And because they're so woke,

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Speaker 1: my fear is a ranking like this will not be

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Speaker 1: seen as a reason to change or improve, but yet

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Speaker 1: another reason to dismiss those who can't possibly know what

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