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Māori, Pacific removed from extra education funding priorities
The Tertiary Education Commission warns it doesn't have enough money to cover enrolment growth next year.
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The government will remove extra funding for Māori and Pacific enrolments in vocational courses, and trim funding for workplace training.
The Tertiary Education Commission told institutions this week it was "reprioritising a small amount - approximately 8 percent - of learner component funding towards provider-based delivery rates, through the removal of Māori and Pacific learners as an eligible category".
The weightings for Māori and Pacific enrolments were worth $152 for each student enrolling in work-based level 1-2 certificates and courses at levels 3-6, and $364 per student in non-degree level 7 courses.
However, the $1327 weighting for disabled students and students with low prior educational achievement would continue.
The payments were added to subsidies for courses offered by polytechnics and private providers, ranging from $6584 for humanities and business courses to nearly $11,786 for health, science, engineering and agriculture, and $19,753 for special agriculture.
The commission said funding for work-based training and education would drop 10 percent, while also repeating warnings from earlier in the year that it
would not have enough money to cover enrolment growth next year
.
"Current forecasts indicate the demand for funding will be greater than what we have available to allocate," it said. "Given the multi-year nature of much education and training, we will need to prioritise our future investment."
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