Daniel Couch

Daniel Couch is a doctoral candidate at the University of Auckland. His research centres on Afghanistan’s higher education sector, and examines the intersection between conflict, education, and state building more broadly.

Society
Jul 16, 2018

Should this big global company be part of a billion-dollar NZ research fund?

Pearson Education runs a for-profit programme in the Global South, and it once tried to sue Rangitoto College

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Politics
Feb 21, 2018

Why aspiring National leader Mark Mitchell's war-for-profit past matters

As founder of a multi-million-dollar private military and security company that operated in Iraq, Mark Mitchell needs to tells us where he stands on war-for-profit, argues Daniel Couch. Mark Mitchell’s announcement …

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