“At a time when New Zealand has critical labour shortages, our major vocational training sector is in dire straits because Chris Hipkins didn't listen to ...
“Labour cannot achieve anything. “Te Pūkenga failings were outlined in a damning report from the Tertiary Education Commission to the Minister earlier this year which contained handwritten comments from Chris Hipkins. “At a time when New Zealand has critical labour shortages, our major vocational training sector is in dire straits because Chris Hipkins didn’t listen to warnings that his centralised mega polytechnic, Te Pūkenga, was not the right model and was fundamentally flawed from the start.
National's tertiary education spokesperson Penny Simmonds, a former education sector CEO, says Education Minister Chris Hipkins was warned Te Pūkenga wasn't the ...
That should have been the way things were handled in the first place, Simmonds said. It warned of a ballooning $110 million deficit as its chief executive is on personal leave. Simmonds said senior sector CEOs, including herself, had warned Hipkins the model for Hamilton-headquartered Te Pūkenga was wrong and their warnings had “come to pass”.
A memo from Tertiary Education Commission deputy chief executive Gillian Dudgeon to Education Minister Chris Hipkins has been leaked to Newstalk ZB. It shows ...