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What can a five-year old Productivity Commission add to a thousand-year old institution?

Murray Sherwin, New Zealand Productivity Commission UC Connect lecture 6 April 2016

Our 5th birthday

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 1800 1820 1840 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 Productivity (lumens per watt, lm/W)

Lighting productivity over time

Candle, 1800, 0.1 lm/W Filament lamp, 1883, 2.6 lm/W Filament lamp, 1980, 12.0 lm/W Filament lamp, 1920, 11.8 lm/W Fluorescent, 1992, 68 lm/W High intensity discharge, 2012, 120 lm/W (LEDs are 100 lm/W and climbing)

Our inquiries to date

Current inquiries

• Urban planning
• New models of tertiary education

Completed inquiries

• Using land for housing
• More effective social services
• Regulatory institutions and practices
• Boosting services sector productivity
• Local government regulation
• Trans-Tasman joint study
• Housing affordability
• International freight transport services

Human computers

Participants in the tertiary education system

Terti rtiar ary educat ation pr providers Stud udent nts Gover ernm nment nt Em Empl ployers Linkages

• 17 Institutes of

technology and polytechnics

• 8 Universities
• 3 Wānanga
• PTEs and others

(eg, community education)

• Ministry of Education
• Tertiary Education

Commission

• Careers New Zealand
• Ministry of Social

Development

• Inland Revenue

Department

• Ministry of Business,

Innovation and Employment

• New Zealand

Qualifications Authority

• Education New Zealand
• Immigration New Zealand
• Universities New Zealand

(statutory functions)

A mediaeval university

Follow the money

Students Providers Domestic tuition fees $861m International tuition fees $425m Student allowances and scholarships $619m SAC $2024m Other tuition funds $359m PBRF $256m Other research funding $200m Loan repayments $1054m Government Administration of tertiary education $150m Loans granted $1470m Other revenue (eg, donations and research contracts)

Levers of control

A system that learns

Experiment with new approaches and test old approaches Monitor and evaluate Identify what does or does not work and why Select and spread what works, amend or discard what does not work Review system performance New ideas Review performance of programmes and providers

Mismatch of graduates to jobs

Teaching teachers

Team production replaces a cottage industry

Extinct occupations

Inquiry timeline

Terms of reference: Nov 2015 Issues paper released Feb 2016; submissions due 4 May 2016 Engagement meetings and consultation on the issues paper Draft report released Sep 2016; submissions due Nov 2016 Engagement meetings and consultation on the draft report Final report to Government: Feb 2017

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A Productivity Commission Team Production

Presenter

Murray Sherwin

Scriptwriter

Dave Heatley

Graphics

Dennis MacManus

Quality control

Kevin Moar

Director

Judy Kavanagh

Publicity

Catherine Jeffcoat

Sources

Lighting productivity. Data from Nordhaus, W. D., ‘Do real-output and real-wage measures capture reality? The history of lighting suggests not’. In Bresnahan, T. F, & Gordon, R. J. (Eds.), The economics of new goods. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; and Broderick, J. R. (2012). Solid-state lighting research and development. US Department of Energy, Washington, DC. Human computers. NACA High Speed Flight Station "Computer Room“, 1949. Photo Number: E49-54. Dryden Flight Research Center Facilities, NASA (public domain in the US). A mediaeval university. Royal 6 E VI f. 541 Doctrina sive Doctor. Historiated initial 'D'(octores) of a scholar giving a lecture to a group of men. Made available by the British Library under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Levers of control. Detail of Ray Bennett’s railway signal box, circa 1990. Published by South Canterbury Museum under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 Unported License. http://timdc.pastperfectonline.com/photo/43E442BE-470F-45C1-8A5D- 997903222454 Teaching teachers. Cover image of the Ako Aotearoa publication: Stein, S. J., Spiller, D., Terry, S., Harris, T., Deaker, L, & Kennedy, J. Unlocking the impact of tertiary teachers’ perceptions of student evaluations of teaching. Published under the Creative Commons 3.0 New Zealand Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike Licence (BY-NC-SA). Mismatch of graduates to jobs. Image accompanying a 5 September 2013 article by the Tertiary Education Union article on ‘No jobs for graduates’. http://teu.ac.nz/2013/09/no-jobs-for-graduates/. TEU website licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Team production replaces a cottage industry. Cover image of the Ako Aotearoa publication: Fraser, C., Honeyfield, J., Breen, F., Protheroe, M., & Fester, V. 2015. Critical success factors in inter-institutional project collaborations. Published under the Creative Commons 3.0 New Zealand Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike Licence (BY-NC-SA). Extinct occupations. Timaru manual telephone exchange, Christmas 1985. Published by South Canterbury Museum under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 Unported License. http://timdc.pastperfectonline.com/photo/673BF3C0-9809-4000-99BB- 453952673670