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The Tertiary Education Advisory Commission (TEAC) reforms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2015

Bill English*
Affiliation:
Shadow Minister for Education, Wellington, New Zealand

Extract

In this article Bill English, New Zealand's Shadow Minister for Education, tells the story of New Zealand's tertiary education policy development over the past several years. His perspective comes from time in government and from time in opposition. He concludes with the lessons to be learnt, and his prognosis of the main issues to be confronted by that tertiary sector, in the years to come. The lessons to be learnt are just as valuable for the Australian sector as they are for New Zealand academicians.

In this article, Polytechnics are the equivalent of the old Colleges of Advanced Education in Australia, or roughly between the TAFE and university sectors. MMP (mixed member proportional) is the proportional system of electing the New Zealand Parliament. This system is similar to the method by which Australians elect their federal Senate. A Wananga is a tertiary institution set up by statute to focus on the educational needs of Maori.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press and Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 2006

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References

Endnotes

1 Terms of Reference for TEAC, Appendix One, Hon Steve Maharey, Forward to ‘Shaping a Shared Vision: The Initial report of the Tertiary Education Advisory Commission’, July 2000.

2 Shaping the System: Second Report of the Tertiary Education Advisory Commission”, 02 2001, p 7Google Scholar.

3 Hon Steve Maharey, Foreword to ‘Shaping a Shared Vision: The initial report of the Tertiary Education Advisory Commission’, July 2000.

4 Shaping the System: Second Report of the tertiary Education Advisory Commission’, 02 2001, p 28Google Scholar.

5 ‘Shaping the Strategy: Third Report of the Tertiary Education Advisory Commission’ July 2001, Introduction, Hon Steve Maharey.