New Zealand’s Vocational Education System: A Focus on Industry Skills Boards
In my previous articles, I examined the vocational education reforms and the new Tertiary Education Strategy. In this fifth article, I explore how these two…
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New Zealand’s Vocational Education System: New Zealand’s Tertiary Education Strategy 2025-2030
On 2 December 2025, Ministers Shane Reti and Penny Simmonds released New Zealand’s new Tertiary Education Strategy for 2025-2030. In this fourth article in my…
New Zealand’s Vocational Education System: The Legislation is Passed – What Happens Now?
In my first two articles of this series, I explored the history of New Zealand’s vocational education system and the announcement of the 2026 reforms.…
New Zealand’s Vocational Education System: The Story So Far
New Zealand’s education system has been changing rapidly in the last few years with significantly more change to come. In this first article in a…
The Importance of Maintaining Devolved Qualifications Regulation
I’ve been having some very interesting discussions on LinkedIn about funding education in the UK and whether merging the UK’s four separate qualifications regulators into…
Five Insights to Support the New Government’s Skills Agenda
Emily Tanner, Programme Head, Post-14 Education and Skills, discusses the UK government’s plans to reform post-16 education to better align skills with local needs and…
The Advanced British Standard – ABS qualification?
Rishi Sunak announces a new qualification, the Advanced British Standard, throwing planned qualification reforms into disarray. I question if this is the right way to…
Maths to 18 – mathematical and quantitative skills needed and relevant to all
With the right pathways through to 19, including building on current options, taking the best of what we already have on offer, and by embedding…
An education reform without FE? It’s like building a house with no foundations
Way back in April of this year I was asked to attend a roundtable discussion of Further Education (FE) sector leaders to provide evidence to…
