Te Pūkenga newsletter – Ngā Taipitopito – August 2021

01/09/2021

Ngā Taipitopito – Newsletter

Kia ora koutou,

The last two weeks have been challenging and I want to thank everyone for all you have done to support our ākonga, and each other, as we’ve moved back to operating from a distance.

While the return to Alert Level 4 is not entirely unexpected, it is disruptive, and it takes time to settle into working online, including online delivery. I hope you all take the time needed to support and care for your whānau, and for yourself. This looks different for each of us so offering support and showing understanding is important, particularly right now.

Keep looking after yourself. Working remotely can be taxing so it’s important to step away from your devices and to move about during the day.

Our Te Pūkenga leadership team wants to make sure you have the space you need to continue supporting learners, and to care for yourselves and your whānau. Right now, that is the most important thing. We’re here to support you, but we don’t want to add to your load right now.

We have written to all CEs, outlining the process for the urgent distribution of Hardship Funding to all subsidiaries, based on criteria agreed with CEs following last year’s lockdown. And our Learner Journey and Experience team, led by Tania Winslade, are convening weekly meetings of learner support staff across the Network. These online hui are opt-in and are aimed at providing our frontline staff with a regular forum in which to share ideas, best practice and practical support for one another. We are sharing this information with your leaders to ensure that there is consistency with individual incident teams. We are also sharing the latest information from the Ministry of Education and Tertiary Education Commission, including through the Tertiary Bulletins. These are some of the ways in which we aim to support our Network, without getting in the way of the important work you do, every day, to support our ākonga and one another.

With Cabinet set to decide on next steps for most of the country today, and for Auckland on Monday, keep across the messages coming from your leaders and managers and check in with one another on a regular basis.

Kia kaha. Stay safe, stay well, stay connected.

Ki te kotahi te kākaho ka whati, ki te kāpuia e kore e whati
If there is but one toetoe stem it will break, but if they are bundled together they will never break

Noho ora mai i roto i ngā manaakitanga

Stephen Town
Chief Executive
Kia ora koutou

Ka nui te kaha o ngā wero i ēnei wiki e rua ka hori ake nei, ā, me mihi au ki a koutou katoa mō ā koutou mahi hei tautoko i ngā ākonga, tētahi i tētahi, nātemea kua hoki anō tātou ki te mahi mai i tawhiti.

Ehara tēnei hokianga ki Taumata 4 i te mea ohorere, heoi, he mea tauwhati tonu, ā, he wā anō kia tau rawa ki te mahi tuihono, ki te tukunga tuihono hoki. Ko te manako ia ka āta whakarite wā koutou katoa ki te tiaki me te manaaki i tō whānau, i a koe anō hoki. He rerekē te āhua mō ia tangata, nō reira he mea nui te whaiwhakaaro ki ētahi atu, tētahi ki tētahi, i tēnei wā tonu.

Kia kaha ki te tiaki i a koe anō. He nui ngā wero o te mahi mai i tawhiti, kia wātea mai hoki i āu nā pūrere kia kaha hoki te korikori i ia rā, i ia rā.

Ko te hiahia o tā mātou tīma kaiarataki o Te Pūkenga kia mātua whai koe i tētahi wāhi pai e taea tonutia te tautoko i ngā ākonga me te tiaki i a koutou ko tō whānau. Mō nāianei, koinā te mea nui. Hei konei mātou ki te tautoko i a koe, kaua ki te whakataumaha i āu mahi.

Kua tuhi atu mātou ki ngā Kaiwhakahaere Matua katoa, ki te whakamārama i te tukanga e pā ana ki te tohatoha wawe i te pūtea Whakawiringa ki ngā āpitihanga katoa e ai ki ngā paearu i whakaaetia ki ngā Kaiwhakahaere Matua i muri i te Rāhui nui o 2020. Ko te tīma Haerenga me te Wheako Ākonga e arahina ana e Tania Winslade, kei te whakahaere hui ā-wiki mō ngā kaitautoko ākonga puta noa i te Kōtuinga. He hui tuwhera noa ngā hui nei, ā, ko te whāinga he whakarite wāhi mō ngā kaimahi aroākapa hei whakawhiti whakaaro mō ngā mahi me te tautoko tētahi i tētahi. Ka tuaringia ēnei kōrero ki ō kātou kaiārahi kia ōrite ngā tikanga mahi a tēnā, a tēna o ngā tīma mahinga. Kei te tuari hoki mātou i ēnei kōrero ki Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga me Te Amorangi Mātauranga Matua, me te tuku kōrero mā ngā Pānui Mātauranga Matua. Koinei ētahi o ngā huarahi e tautoko ai mātou i te Kōtuinga, kia taea tonutia ā koutou mahi, i ia rā, arā te tautoko i ngā ākonga, i tētahi atu hoki.

I tēnei rangi nei ka puta i te Komiti Matua o te Kāwanatanga ngā kōrero mō te nuinga o ngā wāhi o te motu, ā, hei te Mane mō Tāmaki Mākaurau. Kia areare tonu ki ngā kōrero ā ngā kaiārahi me ngā kaiwhakahaere, kia auau tonu hoki te whakapā atu ki ō hoa.

Kia kaha tonu. Kia haumaru te noho, kia kaha te tūhono tētahi ki tētahi.

Ki te kotahi te kākaho ka whati, ki te kāpuia e kore e whati.

Noho ora mai i roto i ngā manaakitanga

Stephen Town
Kaiwhakahaere Mātāmua

 

Our approach to change and your local change teams 
Over the past few months, we have been working together on change leadership, and what this means for us collectively. The purpose of this work has been to develop an approach to the journey we have ahead to transform vocational learning over the coming years.

We will be working together to ensure successful transition for 2023 and beyond. This includes planning on how we will roll out changes.

Change teams are in the process of being set up in both Te Pūkenga and each subsidiary. In addition, we are working with our transitioning TITOs on the best approach for them. Local Change Managers have been appointed and teams are being formed. They will share the details with you directly.

Your local change teams will keep you informed on what is changing and when; the time frame for providing your feedback; what support will be provided to you; how to get answers for questions you may have; and report back to Te Pūkenga, particularly when more support is required.

The local change teams will then be able to provide feedback and insights enabling Te Pūkenga to listen and respond – ensuring your voices are heard and we are working together.

 

Unifying accounting programmes
Development of the first unified programme is underway, with 14 separate accounting programmes set to transition to a single unified programme, which first and second year learners will begin in 2023.

Working groups made up of subject matter experts from the subsidiary ITPs have been working collaboratively to support the development of the unified programme, which involves embedding the level 5 NZ Diploma of Business within the level 7 programme. A key driver for the unification of the accounting programmes was the need for all subsidiaries to reflect the competency requirement updates from the professional bodies (CAANZ/CPA). Therefore, rather than all subsidiaries making updates to their programmes, this collaborative developments means we will have one unified programme that meets the competencies and works for all learners.

A key focus is to develop a flexible, culturally responsive programme that is relevant to learners and local employers, whilst also enabling learners from across our network to transition seamlessly across the motu if they choose to move regions for whānau, study or employment.

 

BCITO transition to Te Pūkenga approved  
The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) has approved the transition of the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation (BCITO) to Te Pūkenga.

The TEC Board’s approval of BCITO’s transition plan sets the way for the transition to occur on 4 October 2021. All of BCITO’s learners and arranging training functions, and most of BCITO’s employees will transfer to Te Pūkenga subsidiary Work-Based Learning Ltd (WBL), as the BCITO business division.

Acting Chief Executive of Work Based Learning Ltd, Fiona Kingsford, said, “we are very much looking forward to welcoming BCITO and having their vast expertise and knowledge of infrastructure training in our new national network.”

BCITO is a very large ITO with 20,000 apprentices and 1,800 trainees, working with 8,350 employers. They are the third ITO to transition to Te Pūkenga, joining Competenz and Connexis ITOs in Te Pūkenga whānau.

 

Director of BCITO Business Division of Te Pūkenga subsidiary Work Based Learning subsidiary appointed
Following the appointment of Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation (BCITO) Chief Executive, Toby Beaglehole, as Chief Executive of Te Pūkenga subisidiary – Work Based Learning Ltd. (WBL), we are now pleased to share the appointment of Jason Hungerford to the role of Director of the BCITO Business Division of WBL.

BCITO Chair Mike King welcomed Jason’s appointment, and said “In this time of change, the Board is pleased to appoint Jason to this role and deliver continuity of leadership to the BCITO team.”

Jason is currently the Chief Financial Officer of BCITO. Prior to joining BCITO he held leadership roles with Vodafone, KiwiRail and Bathurst Resources and worked for a leading cement producer and building products supplier in the UK.

Incoming Chief Executive of Te Pūkenga WBL, Toby Beaglehole also welcomed the appointment and said, “Jason’s appointment is a key milestone in the seamless transition of BCITO into WBL. It is good to have someone with such a deep understanding of the wairua of BCITO leading this important mahi. The future of vocational training in this sector is in good hands.”

Both Toby and Jason will take up their roles on 4 October 2021, in line with BCITO’s transition to Te Pūkenga WBL.

 

Your Questions
This is a section where we will share and answer your questions with the network. You can email your questions to  ourjourney@tepukenga.ac.nz

 

Will Te Pūkenga only cover vocational training up to Level 7 and where do degrees stand in the new operating model?
Te Pūkenga network will continue to deliver qualifications from Levels 1 through to Level 10, as it does currently.

 

How will qualifications and skill needs be identified for each industry?
Industry and employers will work with their Workforce Development Councils (WDCs) to identify the qualifications and skills that their sectors need. The qualification will be developed by the WDC and registered on the New Zealand Qualifications Framework. Te Pūkenga and other providers will develop a programme of study/learning (with associated resources) to meet the requirements of the qualification. We will work with industry and employers to ensure that how the programme is developed and delivered suits their needs.

 

How will Te Pūkenga connect with kura, schools and future learners?
Our connection with kura and schools is critical to create a clear vocational pathway from secondary school through to tertiary education. We recognise that these conversations need to begin at intermediate level. Te Pūkenga is working with the Ministry of Education on how to connect with the secondary school system to reflect the options and opportunities offered by a vocational career.

 

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