New Zealand’s government has announced plans to merge the country’s 16 polytechnics into a national institute of skills and technology, and to give industry a more active role in designing vocational training courses.
Education minister Chris Hipkins said the proposed reforms were “ambitious” and would make better use of public funding.
“We cannot continue to tweak the system knowing that the model is fundamentally broken and isn’t delivering our workforce the skills that they need to thrive,” he said.
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