Hau Taki Haere | Tertiary Update
A good employer wouldn’t go on the radio and tell his workers that up to a thousand job cuts were on the way, you would think.
Te Pūkenga, the entity Chief Executive Peter Winder heads up, includes around 8,000 staff from the 16 former polytechnics who provide vocational education and training.
A little over a week ago, Winder told Kathryn Ryan—not his workers directly, but through a radio interview—that Te Pūkenga is part of “a fundamental shift in the way that people engage in tertiary education, and at its core, that’s how we move to support people to learn in the workplace, as opposed to learn in the classroom. This will work way better for learners than spending years in a classroom.” Asked about on-the-job training, he said “absolutely, that’s at the core of Te Pūkenga—that’s at the core of how we do a better job for learners.”
Link to article: The mood in Te Pūkenga | Tertiary Education Union – Te Hautū Kahurangi o Aotearoa (teu.ac.nz)
