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Tēnā koutou, Talofa lava and good morning.

Tēnā koutou and warm Pacific greetings to you this morning.

NZAPEP President, Karl Yates; members of the NZAPEP Executive; delegates; ladies and gentlemen.

Venue: University of Otago, Dunedin
Date/time: 3:30pm, Saturday 30th August 2008

Venue: Intercontinental Hotel, Wellington

Time: 11:30am, Wednesay 13 August 2008

Thank you for the opportunity to address the 17th annual Education New Zealand international conference.

Tēnā koutou. It is a pleasure to be here this evening to celebrate the exciting partnerships you have forged between employers and tertiary education organisations.

Good afternoon and thank you for having us here today.

Speech notes for address to Adult & Community Education (ACE) National

Good evening, Council Chair Douglas Langford, Chief Executive Paul Grimwood, His Worship the Mayor of Lower Hutt, David Ogden, Council members, Open Polytechnic staff, graduands, family and support

Maryan Street welcomes the upskilling partnership signed between the Department of Labour and the NZ Army in a ceremony at Defence House, Wellington.

Tertiary Education Minister Pete Hodgson's speech at the launch of the New Zealand Skills Strategy discussion document at the University of Victoria's Rutherford House, Wellington.

Thank you for the introduction, Deirdre.

Greetings to Dennis Dressler, Jean King, distinguished guests, presenters and attendees at this conference today.

Speech notes for address to the fifth NZ Vocational Education and Training Research Forum. Te Papa, Wellington

Thank you for your kind introduction, Jeremy [Baker, Executive Director of the ITF].

Douglas Watt (Executive Director with the Conference Board of Canada), Dr Peter Coolbear (Director of Ako Aotearoa: The National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence), Forum presenters and attendees, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. Kia ora and good morning to you all. [image:32345]

Address in Reply

Thank you for the opportunity to open this fine facility and greetings to you all.

Mihi.

Good morning all. It is a pleasure for me to be here today at your conference, and to be addressing a group that represents this country’s future success – students.

I want to address this debate because I represent the only party in this House that did not breach the electoral expenditure rules and laws at the last election.

Today Pete Hodgson spoke at the Association of University Staff Annual Conference.

I would like to start off by welcoming our Australian visitors here as part of the in the Vice-Chancellors’ Committee Administrators’ Programme.

Speech at the launch of Ako Aotearoa, National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence.