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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

Lighting productivity over time 120 High intensity discharge, 2012, 120 lm/W (LEDs are 100 lm/W and climbing) 110 Productivity (lumens per watt, lm/W) 100 90 80 Fluorescent, 1992, 68 lm/W 70 60 Filament lamp, 1980, 12.0 lm/W 50 40 Filament lamp, 1920, 11.8 lm/W 30 Filament lamp, 1883, 2.6 lm/W 20 Candle, 1800, 0.1 lm/W 10 0 1800 1820 1840 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Our inquiries to date • Urban planning Current inquiries • New models of tertiary education • Using land for housing • More effective social services • Regulatory institutions and practices • Boosting services sector productivity Completed inquiries • Local government regulation • Trans-Tasman joint study • Housing affordability • International freight transport services

Human computers

Participants in the tertiary education system • Ministry of Education • Tertiary Education Stud udent nts Gover ernm nment nt Commission • Careers New Zealand • Ministry of Social Development Linkages • Inland Revenue Department • Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Terti rtiar ary educat ation Empl Em ployers • New Zealand pr providers Qualifications Authority • Education New Zealand • 17 Institutes of • 3 Wānanga • Immigration New Zealand technology and • PTEs and others polytechnics • Universities New Zealand (eg, community (statutory functions) • 8 Universities education)

A mediaeval university

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

Levers of control

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

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

A Productivity Commission Team Production Presenter Quality control Murray Sherwin Kevin Moar Scriptwriter Dave Heatley Director Judy Kavanagh Graphics Dennis MacManus Publicity Catherine Jeffcoat www.productivity.govt.nz Twitter: @Nzprocom

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