Each week day The Front Page keeps you up to date with the biggest news in New Zealand. Today, Jacinda Ardern signals an overhaul to the country’s polytechnics, the Tasman inferno forces more families from their homes, name suppression lapses for one of the ‘unruly tourists’ and a little style advice for those heading to Hawkes Bay’s Art Deco festival. Hosted by Juliette Sivertsen.
The country’s polytechnics are in for a shake-up
Jacinda Ardern gave her ‘State of the Nation’ speech to a business audience this morning, outlining the economic challenges facing New Zealand, and foreshadowing a major restructure of polytechnics and institutes of technology.
The restructure proposal is to be released next week.
It’s expected to recommend turning the vocational education sector into a flexible network, which focuses on greater cooperation between institutions to meet the needs of business.
Polytechnics and institutes have cost the Government $100 million in recent bailouts.
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