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These pages contain the original text of the Tertiary Education Strategy documents. Only edit content if you notice the text is inconsistent with the final published document. Feel free to develop your own cross references and index structure. A more focussed tertiary research investment through world-class clusters and networks of specialisation
Because we are a small nation, it is not possible to cover all research areas. By 2007, we will have achieved a balance between the spread of capability required to access global knowledge networks and the achievement of critical mass in areas of distinctive research strength. This will have entailed some rationalisation of research areas among providers, and greater collaboration with other research organisations such as CRIs, so as to achieve critical mass, greater depth, and higher quality when measured against international benchmarks. A performance-based research fund will have helped foster greater collegiality and interdisciplinary synergies in key research areas. Much of the specialisation within the sector will build on the current strengths in the arts and sciences but will do so without undermining the excellent fundamental research for which New Zealand depends on the tertiary education system, and without being so concentrated that it constrains opportunities for serendipitous discoveries. Our university leaders will have made some tough decisions about investment priorities, and even tougher choices regarding disinvestments. They will also have in place plans for investment in research infrastructure to support these strategic decisions. « Objective 31 | Index | Objective 33 » |
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