Kia ora koutou,
Karanga te pō, karanga te ao, karanga te kaupapa o te rā ko Ngā Taipitopito o Te Pūkenga e tere atu nei, tihei mauriora!
Since our last update, across the motu (country) we’ve moved to the Orange setting of the COVID-19 Protection Framework. For those campus-based colleagues in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, this time also marks a shift towards a return to more on-site delivery. With the majority of your delivery occurring online since August last year, I’m sure this will be a significant change for kaimahi and your learners.
With each shift in our public health settings comes a period of adjustment as we remind ourselves what this phase means, how we can keep ourselves, our learners and our whānau safe and how we can support local and connect with each other.
COVID-19 hasn’t gone away. We must continue to be considered and deliberate in our approach and draw on public health measures to slow the spread of this virus. Keeping up good hygiene practices and mask wearing in close-contact and confined spaces will help us go about our work as safely as possible. Continue looking after your wellbeing and your wellness – as well as those around you.
In our last newsletter we included a link to a TEU State of the Tertiary Sector survey. We thought by sharing the link in this manner that more tertiary sector staff may decide to complete the survey. We didn’t anticipate some of the concerns that have been raised.
For this we unreservedly apologise and will take more care to explain why any survey might be included in the fortnightly newsletter in the future.
Finally, I wanted to share a little more information with you about the early move of Toi Ohomai and Wintec into Te Pūkenga. Below you’ll find a link to a recording of the announcement, as well as some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
As I mentioned in the last edition, there are no changes to roles in the Early Mover ITPs workstream, with the exception of Chief Executives and governance arrangements. Dave and Leon are important kaiārahi (leaders) and will continue to be as we move through this change. Their significance and value will be preserved through this process and we will support our colleagues across the network through this stage of the journey.
Ngā mihi,
Stephen Town
Chief Executive
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