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Results from a pilot study tracking Porirua and Christchurch school leavers will be used to further refine the government’s plans to introduce an Education and Training Leaving Age.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Education

The Government’s flagship Modern Apprenticeships programme has exceeded expectations, with new figures showing more than 3,000 young New Zealanders are now signed up under the scheme.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Education

Community and Voluntary Sector Minister Steve Maharey is promising that Labour in government will continue to strengthen the community and voluntary sector and improve its relationship with government.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Community and Voluntary Sector

Funding for the five specialist centres of research excellence (CoRE) chosen in March and criteria for the allocation of an additional $58 million provided for new centres in the May budget has now been confirmed, Associate Education (Tertiary Education) Minister Steve Maharey said today.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Education

Speech at Business New Zealand's Election 2002: Growth, Politics and Business conference. Hotel Inter-Continental, Wellington.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

Details of the decision-making framework for joint public-private sector investments at our tertiary institutions were outlined today by Associate Education (Tertiary Education) Minister Steve Maharey and Education and Associate Finance Minister Trevor Mallard.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Education

Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey chowed down with children from Royal Oak Primary School this morning to promote the importance of children starting each day with breakfast.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Community and Voluntary Sector

Genuine ownership of the tertiary education reforms and a system more focused on quality is seen as the key to improving the connections between industry, the community and the sector.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Education

National’s tertiary education policy is full of sloppy thinking and would offer nothing to students, says Associate Education (Tertiary Education) Minister Steve Maharey.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Education

National’s welfare policy released today is devoid of any new ideas and long on rhetoric, says Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

National’s youth welfare policy shows it learnt nothing during the 1990s and is simply rehashing ideas that failed last time it was in government, says Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

Labour will widen eligibility for student allowances as a priority in its second term, Associate Education (Tertiary Education) Minister Steve Maharey said today.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Education

The skills parents need to be succesful in a very demanding society are to be central to Labour’s policies if it is returned to government.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

The new approach to funding research within the tertiary education sector would developed with the assistance of experts with knowledge of the sector, Associate Minister of Education (Tertiary Education) Steve Maharey said today.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Education

A new $2 million strategy will encourage community organisations to make use of information and communications technology (ICT).

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey and local MPs Parekura Horomia and Georgina Beyer were in Dannevirke this morning to mark Rangitäne o Tamaki nui a Rua joining the government’s social entrepreneurship programme.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

Comments at the launch of the Rangitäne o Tamaki nui a Rua social entrepreneurship programme. Copenhagen Square, Dannevirke.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Community and Voluntary Sector

Comments at the inaugural Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards ceremony. Grand Hall, Parliament Buildings.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Education

Fourteen tertiary educators have been honoured in the inaugural tertiary teaching excellence awards announced this evening.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Education

The government will pilot Individual Job Seeker Accounts this year, Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey said today.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Maharey is giving his strong support to New Zealand’s third national Children’s Day to be held on 27 October.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

Social Services and Employment Minister Steve Mahartey says that the Ministry of Social Development, through Work and Income will assist staff made redundant by the closure of the PPCS meat processing plant in Blenheim to secure alternative employment.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Social Development and Employment

The winners of the inaugural Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards will be announced at an awards ceremony being held at Parliament on Monday evening, 24 June 2002.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Education

Associate Education Minister is criticising the Alliance for playing the politics of inter-generational envy with their proposal to use Government funding allocated to New Zealand Superannuation to write off student debt.

  • Steve Maharey
  • Education