JEHAN CASINADER: Kiwis are clueless about export education

JEHAN CASINADER: Kiwis are clueless about export education
Jehan Casinader
The next time you’re at the water cooler, ask your colleagues to name New Zealand’s top export earners. You’ll receive a predictable range of replies.Milk, meat, wood and tourism – those answers roll off the tongue. But what about education? International education is our fifth biggest export. It netted about $5 billion a year in pre-covid times. That revenue is now at risk. The pandemic-induced upheaval comes after a decade of extraordinary growth for the sector.In 2011, the National government announced an am...

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