NZ Union of Students' Associations

Marketing & Advertising Spending by Institutions
An online document published June 06, 2005

'The policy of user-pays public tertiary education, and the notion that the student is a consumer and education a product, has been the sinister result of an increasingly market-based and competitive environment within New Zealand�s public tertiary education system over the last 20 years.'

This online document was published by the New Zealand Union of Students' Associations (NZUSA), a federation of student associations and the largest student body in New Zealand. NZUSA represents students at Universities, Colleges of Education and Polytechnics.

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