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Jul 1, 2024 · Te Pūkenga closure raises questions over loans. Te Pūkenga ring-fenced $80m from seven polytechnics, promising to use that funding in their regions. File photo. Photo: wintec.ac.nz. There are question marks over what the disestablishment of Te Pūkenga will mean for the millions of dollars of loans between different parts of the mega ...
Jun 24, 2024 · As New Zealand’s largest tertiary education provider, Te Pūkenga works with employers and learners and brings together on-the-job, on campus, and online vocational education and training. Te Pūkenga’s key functions include: improving outcomes for Māori and Māori communities in collaboration with Māori and iwi partners and stakeholders
Jun 18, 2024 · Six months after ordering Te Pūkenga to stop work, the government has told it to resume cost-cutting and asset sales at its polytechnics. In a letter of expectations sent on 20 May, Tertiary Education Minister Penny Simmonds said some of the polytechnics were not financially sustainable.
6 days ago · Wed, 03 Jul 2024. The Government may be staying quiet on how it plans to reform vocational education, but Te Pūkenga believes a replacement model is a done deal. Or, at least, it did. In response to queries from BusinessDesk, a spokesperson for Te Pūkenga said a request for information (RFI) revealing details of a planned merger of polytechs ...
Jun 19, 2024 · 19 June 2024. Penny Simmonds has fronted the Education and Workforce select committee as part of Budget scrutiny week. She faced questions about the tertiary sector, including the polytech merger, to create Te Pukenga. Simmonds says it spent time looking at unifying programmes across campuses.
Jul 1, 2024 · Different parts of Te Pukenga have lent one another nearly 170-million-dollars and it's not clear what will happen with the money when the mega-institute is disestablished. The national institute of skills and technology has made big deficits in the last couple of years and arranged loans internally to save on interest costs.
Jun 17, 2024 · As of 1 January 2023, BCITO | Te Pūkenga has officially transitioned from being a work-based learning subsidiary to one of 25 operating divisions within Te Pūkenga New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology.
