Election 2020 - Party Policies - Education - Tertiary Education
25th Jul 20, 5:51am
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Tertiary Education
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- Tertiary providers will continue as they have to date. They must be registered to receive funding from a Student Education Account.
- Non-student funding for tertiary education will continue as normal. Tertiary providers will no longer have their fees capped, allowing them to compete on price and quality as they choose.
- Students will also be able to draw down funds from their Student Education Account for living costs.
- Specify that tertiary institutions have obligations under sections 13 and 14 of the Bill of Rights Act 1990.
- Provide for the development of a mandatory code of practice for these instructions regarding how to ensure that they met those obligations.
- Limit eligibility for funding to institutions that do not comply with the mandatory code of practice.
- Read more here and here.
- Work to embed sustainability across the curriculum.
- Undertake a comprehensive review of the Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF) model and investigate the merits of alternative funding streams.
- Explore options to introduce a debt write-off scheme that limits the individual burden of debt while incentivising graduates to contribute to New Zealand.
- Review the levels of Living Costs, Course-related costs, Student Allowances, and relevant welfare benefits to ensure they are equitable and at a liveable level.
- Work towards establishing a public 'fee-free' tertiary education system.
- Reset income support payments to ensure everyone not in fulltime paid work, including all tertiary students, receives a base payment of $325 after tax a week - with a fairer approach to abatement and treatment of relationships in the income support system.
- Read more here, here and here.
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- Allow tertiary education providers to bring international students into New Zealand, under strict quarantine and testing protocols, to support our education sector and economic recovery.
- Read more here.
- Implement the Up Front Investment Tertiary Policy as quickly as possible so as to remove student debt from the next generation and to ensure that workforce planning is used to remove our dependence on the importation of skilled labour as a norm.
- Move to introduce a universal living allowance which is not subject to parents means testing as a priority for all full-time students.
- Immediately introduce a dollar-for-dollar debt write-off scheme so that graduates in identified areas of workforce demand may trade a year’s worth of debt for each year of paid full-time work in New Zealand in that area.
- Work with the sector to reset the international student market so that when it is safe to restart this sector it is done safely and is rebuilt to provide quality education and experiences to these students but also provide high quality income for our nation. International Education must not be used as a back door to immigration.
- Continue to support the resourcing of apprenticeships and on-job learning to develop a skilled workforce and address unemployment across all ages.
- Work alongside the sector, including NZUSA, to establish a project to build capacity for enhancing student engagement so students have a say in how, what and why they learn. This would be based on the implementation of the Student Voice for Quality Enhancement report and by funding a long-term programme to build capacity for the student voice in the sector ($2m over 5 years).
- While respecting institutional autonomy and diversity, require through the external review processes that institutions can demonstrate that they have independent, autonomous and well-resourced systems of student advocacy services for genuinely engaging, through student representatives, with students.
- Work with NZUSA and the sector to establish an expert reference group with a view to implement two thousand ‘First in Family’ scholarships per year. These will create a step-change in educational aspiration by promoting fee-free education with wrap-around support from secondary, through transition and to completion for those who would be the first in their immediate family to achieve a degree. ($68m over first 3 years 2015 to 2017).
- Read more here.
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