CEO Catriona Jackson was on Sky News yesterday, playing an admirably straight bat

Ms Jackson was asked about training enrolments outstripping growth in uni students and deftly ducked any comparison. “I think it’s a good thing that people are undertaking any kind of education. We know we need more, not less, for the skills needs of the economy,” she said.

And lest anyone miss the point, she made it again, “if we have a strong university system, a strong vocational education system, we have a strong economy. It’s as simple as that.”

It really is – the new government is keen on training and sticking to old scripts about unis being underfunded will not make friends in cabinet.