Accreditation Collapse Stalls Tech Immigration

New Zealand’s IT Professionals institute is entering liquidation, imperiling its roles in visa skill assessments, university IT degree accreditation, and cloud code oversight. The episode reveals a governance bottleneck: essential state functions outsourced to a single private body can halt when that body fails. — It spotlights the systemic risk of relying on private associations for public‑critical tasks like migration, standards, and accreditation, urging redundancy and contingency planning.