This study is the min response by the New Zealand Business Roundtable to call by the Government for comment on tertiary education in New Zealand. The New Zealand Business Roundtable welcomes this opportunity, because we consider that substantial improvements are possible in our system of tertiary education. The current system inhibits the opportunity for our tertiary education institutions to reach their full potential. One result of this inhibition of opportunity has been a slower rate of economic advance – lower living standards – than New Zealanders are capable of creating for themselves.