Dr. Jim Murray:

I have another point on the supports needed. If institutions are amalgamating, one must consider the complexities of merging various institutional cultures and the sequencing of reforms under the broader higher education strategy. I refer to the rationalisation of programmes, for example. This is one of the issues that is being explored in the context of the Hunt report. One must also bear in mind cross-institutional collaboration between the institutes of technology and universities. This must take place within a choreographed sequence such that every outcome is not expected at the same time. If it were, there would be chaos.