How Not to Argue About Free Tuition (New Zealand Edition)

By Alex Usher. We are coming up on the first anniversary of the implementation of free first-year fees at New Zealand universities and colleges, and so naturally people want to litigate about what happened, is it working, etc.  Generally, New Zealand has *excellent* data on post-secondary education.  Nevertheless, its current debate on “did free first-year work” is a bit disastrous, mainly because people there can’t seem to agree on the terms of the debate. More...