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The Government is changing its approach to teacher recruitment as COVID-19 travel restrictions continue, by boosting a range of initiatives to get more Kiwis into teaching.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

The Government has established a new category that will allow 250 international PhD and postgraduate students to enter New Zealand and continue their studies, in the latest set of border exceptions.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

More schools have opted in to the donations scheme for 2021, compared to 2020 when the scheme was introduced.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

The Government is committing nearly $9 million to ensure educators in early learning services and schools get the wellbeing support they need.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

School-age children from overseas who are unable to leave New Zealand due to COVID-19 will be allowed to go to local schools as temporary domestic students for the rest of 2020, Education Minister Chris Hipkins announced today.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

Additional support, including the option of summer school, is being put in place for senior secondary school students whose learning has been disrupted by the re-emergence of COVID-19 in the community, Education Minister Chris Hipkins announced today.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

Record numbers of people are taking up free courses and strong signs are emerging of firms making use of government support for apprentices, Education Minister Chris Hipkins said today.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

The Government has launched a new online, phone and onsite service to help New Zealanders connect to a range of employment support and products for workers and businesses affected by COVID-19, announced Minister of Education Chris Hipkins and Minister for Social Development Carmel Sepuloni.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Education
  • Social Development

The Government is releasing $214 million from the COVID-19 response and recovery fund to help schools and support construction firms facing additional costs due to the pandemic.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

A new trades training centre to upskill the local workforce will be built in the South Waikato town of Tokoroa through funding from the Government’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund, Education Minister Chris Hipkins and Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones have announced.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Education
  • Regional Economic Development

Two employment schemes – one new and one expanded – going live today will help tens of thousands of people continue training on the job and support thousands more into work, the Government has announced.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Education
  • Social Development

The Government has released a long-term strategic recovery plan, backed by $51.6 million investment from the COVID recovery and response fund to help stabilise New Zealand’s international education sector.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

Otago Polytechnic, a subsidiary of the NZ Institute of Skills and Technology, will get a new purpose-built centre in Dunedin devoted to training qualified workers for the building, construction and related trades, Infrastructure

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Hon Shane Jones
  • Education
  • Infrastructure

The Education and Training Bill, which modernises and strengthens the education system is expected to pass its third reading this week,” Education Minister Chris Hipkins said today.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

The Government is expanding and accelerating frontline mental health and wellbeing services at tertiary education institutes (TEI) to help students manage ongoing stresses related to COVID-19.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education
  • Health

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Education Minister Chris Hipkins today announced significant funding for Auckland’s Northcote College as part of the first wave of a new nationwide school redevelopment programme to upgrade schools over the next 10 years.

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Prime Minister
  • Education

The Government has opened an urgent response fund to support schools and early learning services to get children and young people back on track after the Covid-19 lockdown.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

The Government’s free and healthy school lunches programme moves south for the first time creating jobs for around 30 people in Otago and Southland.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

Home-based early childhood education (ECE) subsidised by the government will transition to a fully qualified workforce by 2025 to ensure better and more consistent quality, Education Minister Chris Hipkins announced today.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

A Bill that will strengthen protections for whistleblowers has been introduced by the Minister of State Services Chris Hipkins today.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

The Government is providing businesses with up to $16,000 to help pay the cost of each apprentice for the first two years.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Hon Carmel Sepuloni
  • Education
  • Social Development

Two-thirds of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) exams can now be delivered digitally as the Government boosts funding for the NCEA online programme, Education Minister Chris Hipkins announced today.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education

The Government is increasing investment in the Creatives in Schools programme, providing work opportunities for an additional 300 artists, Prime Minister and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Jacinda Ardern and Minister of

  • Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Prime Minister
  • Arts, Culture and Heritage
  • Education

The Government will introduce a range of proposed amendments to the Education and Training Bill to help the international education sector’s recovery from COVID-19 and ensure the education system is better capable to respond to future emergencies.

  • Hon Chris Hipkins
  • Education