The Telford farm-training campus will reopen this year under the aegis of the Southern Institute of Technology. A longer-term package was clearly preferable from a local perspective but a single year is as far as the Government is prepared to commit, amid its wider moves to reform vocational education and training nationwide. Hipkins isn't deluded in his depiction of a the model for vocational education training nationwide being broken. It is hard to see any sort of coherent model for agricultural training that doesn't seek to enhance Telford, rather than replace it. SIT has funding to cater for 200 primary industry students through both avenues this year, so that's the goal.

Source: Stuff February 06, 2019 15:56 UTC