New Zealand higher education policy
  
  
   
  
      
  
  
    
        
  
  
      
            
  
      Exercise ‘triggered a lot of work that’s still got to be completed’ but succeeded in being ‘provocative’, according to country’s former chief science adviser
       
  
      Ambitious review with modest government pickup ‘was not an exercise in kicking the can down the road’
       
  
      Thinktank urges change of culture from ‘kindness to fairness’ after identifying rapid rise in number of top marks awarded by universities
       
  
      Performance-based research fund also faces overhaul, as Wellington embraces least disruptive and costly aspects of landmark review’s proposals
       
  
      New agreement, signed in the shadow of eagerly anticipated reviews, will ‘scale up research’ and generate ‘better value’
       
  
      ‘Share the excitement’, sceptics told, amid conflicting claims over rationale for graduate-entry programme