Change is on the horizon for New Zealand's 16 polytechnics following the announcement Mr Hipkins will scrap a tertiary education funding model of the previous government. "The competitive model is another failed ideological experiment of the previous National government," Mr Hipkins said yesterday at a vocational education and training forum in Auckland. Questioned further on whether one or more of New Zealand's polytechnics could be forced to close, Mr Hipkins said this was not the case. "But what it looks like will ultimately be influenced by the process that has started," Mr Hipkins said. The change affects all student achievement component funding at levels 1 and 2, and levels 3 and 4 funding for agriculture, horticulture and viticulture courses.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 01, 2018 14:03 UTC