John Key's speech - the main points

The comments about the Tertiary Sector relate to the sector as a whole "particularly below degree-level" rather than to Universities.

take IT as an example. Industry wants MSCE, CCIO, ITIL, Sigma Six, ERP specifics but what do Universities do... not this stuff. The skirt around academic and theory and dont want to get their hands dirty with practical. Essentially Polytechs and Universities should merge

Sounds like some good solid ideas.

New Zealand will be a third world country or a state of Australia if you don't accept the brutal truth.

There is no education for trades that are relevant to a developing country.

Why do we need university grown IT pros when our communications network is made up of relics from the 70's,80's and 90's and we get bent over when it comes to the bill.

You pay a university to train 100 Electrcial Engineers to design and construct power stations but all the Electrcians have gone to Australia and we still have blackouts and cant meet demand.

You offer wind farms and hydro schemes to power the nation but the people concerned about the environment would prefer less noise polution than carbon polution and save snails only to open cut for coal.

If you don't develop your resources the way you want then you should expect someone else to realise their potential and see you as the major obsticle.

We need to provide for the less fortunate but the less fortunate agree than packing shelves, maintenace or process work is below them but then turn around and complain that companys move our nations factorys to China, well if they can work for nothing I sure you would survive on $10 an hour.

It doesn't mater wether you black, white, portirician, hatian or part of the zulu nation, you live in this country and use its services, so you only get out what you put in and being on the benifit for 18 months doesn't count.