Archive for: Youth Guarantee
Newsletter 30/3 (Support for Christchurch)
Take on the Week Steven Joyce sprang into action this week, announcing the 37% 2011 drop off of Christchurch international enrolments and a $5m commitment (over...
Parliament Report 12/3
The focus this week was on the transition from school to tertiary and from welfare to work/tertiary education. This Parliament Report covers the period from 4 to...
Newsletter 9/3 (2012 Investment Plans)
Take on the Week Yesterday we released 2012 investment plan analyses for wananga, PTEs, ITOs, universities, ITPs and Skills for Canterbury. We apologise for putting...
Ministerial Delegations and Cabinet Committees 9/3
The Cabinet Office has posted Cabinet Committee membership and Ministerial delegations, with the most interesting parts being the roles of Pita Sharples and (especially)...
2012 Investment Plans – Wananga
Aotearoa and Awanuiarangi were approved for the same SAC funding in 2012 as in 2011, plus Budget 2011 increases, while smaller funds had more for Aotearoa and less...
2012 Investment Plans – ITPs
There were no major funding cuts for ITPs other than in aviation and where some ITPs handed funds back when they were unable to meet enrolment targets. New funding...
Newsletter 2/3 (2012 Investment Plan Series Coming Up)
Take on the Week We finally received an OIA response on 2012 investment plan decisions from TEC yesterday. We will review the documents next week and, of course,...

Māori Party – National Coalition Agreement
The Māori and National Parties have reached a coalition agreement. The key tertiary education change is that vocational education training places are to be allocated...
National Party Election Policies
National released tertiary education policy from early childhood through to tertiary education yesterday. In tertiary education, they have largely built on existing...
Parliament Report 12/10 (India Inquiry Released)
This Parliament Report covers the period from 24 September to 11 October. The House rose during the period and these reports will accordingly be briefer until after...
Parliament Report 5/9
This Parliament Report covers the period from 15 August to 2 September. We held off on doing this report until Hansard was available for the two education-related...
Pasifika Education Plan Mid-Term Review
An update on progress towards the Pasifika Education Plan has been released. The mid-term review is relatively upbeat, but the document released does not include...
Parliament Report 15/8
This Parliament Report covers the period from 9 to 14 August. The Education Amendment Bill (No.4) is moving ahead smoothly, while policies around youth skills and...
National’s Youth Policies 15/8
National has announced a youth-focused election policy, aimed at getting 16-17 year olds who are not in education or work into education. More data-sharing and youth...
Parliament Report 3/8
This Parliament Report covers the period from 16 July to 3 August 2011. NZQA has released new approval and accreditation criteria. Two Bills have been reported back...
Parliament Report 19/7
This Parliament Report covers the week ending 15 July 2011. Labour has asked a lot of questions about Youth Training and Youth Guarantee, possibly after PTE requests....
Parliament Report 12/7
This Parliament Report covers the fortnight ending 8 July 2011. The likelihood of the VSM Bill not passing before the election, unless it is taken up by the government,...
Newsletter 2/6
Take on the Week The proposed NZQA-ERO merger has been debated a little since it was announced as part of state sector restructuring (to be supported by this group)....
Newsletter 25/5
Take on the Week The Budget was the biggest item of the last week and our second Budget update last Friday provided a good overview of the funding changes. The...
Parliament Report 12/4
This Parliament Report covers the week ending 8 April 2011. It is longer due to Unitec’s involvement in two petitions to Parliament, possible compulsory social...