THE FUTURE OF OUR UNIVERSITIES - Tertiary Education Symposium 15 May 2024

In short, a relapse into THE FUTURE OF OUR UNIVERSITIES SYMPOSIUM  01 Future of our Universities Symposium INTRODUCTION The symposium on the Future of In his opening remarks, Dr Oliver Our Universities, organised by The Hartwich, the executive director New Zealand Initiative and the Free of The New Zealand Initiative, Speech Union, brought together underscored the importance of a diverse array of. [...] Over the course of the day, the founder of the modern research panellists and participants engaged university, Hartwich emphasised in robust discussions and debates, the need to keep the Enlightenment but also shared ideas about what spirit of open inquiry and has gone wrong in higher education academic rigour alive in the face of in this country and how to change contemporary challenges. [...] The symposium’s programme was designed to tackle a range of critical themes, including the financial sustainability and governance of universities, the protection of academic freedom and viewpoint diversity, the pursuit of research excellence and impact, and what the real purpose of universities should be. [...] While there was no consensus Drawing on his book The on the way forward, the Constitution of Knowledge, Rauch symposium played a valuable made a passionate case for the role in raising awareness of the importance of preserving the critical importance of academic Enlightenment values of free freedom and viewpoint diversity inquiry, rational debate, and the to the health and vitality of New pursuit. [...] Figure 4: R&D funding in New Zealand 10  THE NEW ZEALAND INITIATIVE Prof Kendall Clements speaking at the Symposium Jonathan Rauch speaking at the Symposium COMPARING INTERNATIONAL MODELS AND APPROACHES The symposium benefited from the traced the origins of this crisis to a the importance of safeguarding insights of international speakers confluence of factors, including the academic freedom in th.