Election 2017 - Party Policies - Education - Training and Apprenticeships
27th May 17, 9:49am
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Training and Apprenticeships
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- Retaining the minimum wage for youth and trainee rates at the adult minimum wage, to remove the possibility of exploiting young workers
- Financial support for the appropriate retraining of long-term unemployed
- Ensure appropriate funding /training subsidies for staff training focused on low-income workers and small businesses.
- Expanding vocational guidance services so that unemployed people can be given proper, individually tailored assistance in finding appropriate employment and training opportunities from the time they first register as a jobseeker.
- Raise the current cap on age and numbers of apprentices, particularly those that are spread across several small business employers instead of just one.
- Read more here.
- Expanding our previous commitment to pay the equivalent of the unemployment benefit to employers who take on an apprentice. We are removing the cap and extending the eligibility to all 18 to 24 year olds not earning or learning.
- Change funding systems to encourage the development of ‘hop on, hop-off’ training to equalise the focus that is placed on completing a qualification and gaining work experience
- Reinforce the roles of Industry Training Organisations as standard setting bodies for their respective industries, and promote partnerships between industry and tertiary providers to deliver fit for purpose and responsive education to people of all ages and stages of their careers
- Young Entrepreneurs Plan will allow a small number of smart and innovative young New Zealanders to apply to cash in their three free years of education, instead receiving a start-up business grant, training and a business mentor.
- Establish ‘Creative Apprenticeships’ as a New Zealand Apprenticeship option for the creative industries This will allow people to combine training and paid employment to acquire a recognised qualification through a mix of on-job and off-job learning.
- Read more here, here, and here.
- Double the existing Māori and Pacific trade training and cadetships placements per annum for the next five years.
- Introduce a 6 month ‘earn as you learn’ job experience scheme for unemployed youth; and a 12-month job experience scheme for unemployed youth and pay a Youth Allowance to cover costs arising from employment related activities.
- Explore paid internships at taxpayer funded organisations for Māori and Pacific graduates to grow the next generation of Māori and Pacific leaders.
- Grow the number of businesses that hire apprentices by extending apprenticeships to emerging industries such as those in the STEM and digital sectors.
- Develop advanced apprenticeships schemes in the renewable energy, agriculture, forestry, construction, and engineering sectors for people wanting to upskill or retrain in another industry.
- Read more here and here.
- Established three primary industry trades academies to train more young people with the skills they need to succeed in the rural sector, with 850 places available each year, and increased tuition subsidies for agriculture-related tertiary qualifications.
- Read more here.
- Review funding and attendance models that create barriers to achieving recognized NZQA qualifications through flexible individual training agreements and workplace internships.
- Work alongside the sector to develop and resource a clear understanding of the Skills Leadership role and the roles of other stakeholders, ie. trainees, secondary schools, employers.
- 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.
- Paid internship programme to provide work experience.
- Introduce the Ministry of Social Development funded and NZ Defence Force operated Youth Enterprise and Training Initiative that will provide formal trade training to students not suited to conventional education.
- Read more here, here, and here.
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