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The new national polytechnic is facing a bleak first year of existence after 11 of its 16 member institutes announced losses for last year totaling millions of dollars.
The polytechnics that now make up the New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology collectively made a multi-million-dollar deficit for the third consecutive year in 2019 and many of them are expecting losses again this year.
RNZ education correspondent John Gerritsen reports.