Children and young people are learning and developing
An Education Workforce Strategy (EWS) is being developed in partnership with the education sector. Work will include the wider workforce across early learning, primary and secondary education, and the learning support workforce. This will be complemented by a Rāngai Māori (RM) workforce strategy for Māori-medium education covering Māori immersion level one, where more than 81% of learning is provided in Māori language immersion.
The original timeline has been reviewed after a delay before the primary principals’ collective agreement was settled in August 2019.
A draft action plan has now been developed for the EWS, in conjunction with Accord partners (sector unions). Work is underway on strengthening Māori-medium education pathways, which will a inform workforce action plan for Rāngai Māori.
Next steps includes Ministerial consideration of the draft EWS strategy and action plan, and agreement to public and sector consultation processes.