Canterbury, Victoria and Otago are all starting the year with between 1300 and 1500 more full-time domestic students than last year, increases of 9-13 percent, while Lincoln has 230 more, an increase of 35 percent.
Victoria University vice-chancellor Grant Guilford said the enrolments were likely to exceed the number the Tertiary Education Commission had agreed to subsidise at his institution this year and it would have to ask for more.
Will the government honour the increased enrolments , even though they are well above the maximum that they normally would apply, with the lucrative overseas student contracts unavailable due to the closed borders, this is effecting a “double whammy” financial head winds, for all our Universities.
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