Election 2020 - Party Policies - Education - Training and Apprenticeships
25th Jul 20, 5:50am
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Training and Apprenticeships
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- Students who elect for apprenticeships will be able to use their Student Education Account to fund course costs.
- Read more here.
- Increase support for apprenticeships and trade training, including through Trades Academies.
- Remove barriers to tertiary education.
- Increase resources for meaningful training of people currently out of work or underemployed, including through community education programmes.
- Expand the Enterprise Allowance, and increasing support for organisations that train and mentor people establishing small businesses or community enterprise.
- Provide greater support for migrants and refugees to gain New Zealand credentials and employment in their chosen field.
- Ensure skills development and working conditions meet the needs of people with disabilities, including through improving accessibility standards.
- Read more here and here.
- Making apprenticeships and trades training in targeted areas free, giving primary sector employers a new stream of new workers to upskill and employ.
- Helping young people gain entry requirements to access trades training and providing support for them to stay in training and employment.
- Bringing back night classes, which were slashed by the previous National Government, and providing funding for courses to better support people displaced from work and facing barriers to entering the labour market, and people experiencing social isolation.
- Reinstate the Training Incentive Allowance for degree level study, to provide additional support to sole parents, disabled people and their carers towards the cost of study.
- Read more here and here.
- Return autonomy and independence to the Institutes of Technology and Polytechnic’s and ensure that industry training is led by industry, not Government.
- Read more here.
- Review funding and attendance models that create barriers to achieving recognized NZQA qualifications through flexible individual training agreements and workplace internships. (see our Business Linked Internship Policy under Small Business)
- Minimise the “opportunity costs” (administration and compliance) and financial barriers for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to employ apprentices and provide flexibility for provincial and rural New Zealand students.
- Encourage strategic alliances between industry crown research institutes and tertiary institutions to increase the number of scholarships and government funded research grants available to graduates, universities and employers.
- Re-establish Teachers Training Colleges to address the deficiencies in many Initial Teacher Training courses.
- Read more here.
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