Here’s the third in our series of election graphs highlighting what is happening to tertiary education at the moment. This one shows the large number of students that institutions are educating ‘for free’ because the government is not paying for them under its funding cap.

In the most recent years, 2009 and 2010, over four percent of students were not funded by government, so institutions paid for them by cutting costs in other areas. These numbers do not include those potential students who were tuned away and did not take up study at all because of limited funding.

Please feel free to circulate this graph and the earlier two with other TEU members – all our election material is available at teu.ac.nz/election-2011/