Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 3)

The closing date for submissions is 11.59pm on Monday, 01 May 2023

The bill would make a number of amendments to the Education and Training Act 2020, including:

• establishing a new governance framework for wānanga ​
• altering school board eligibility criteria and election processes
• permitting the Ministry of Education to access early childhood education data from Statistics New Zealand
• changing the status of Kura Kaupapa Māori, which have been treated as designated character schools since 2017
• ensuring employers assess Police vets for non-teaching employees and contractors
• requiring university and wānanga annual reports to include information about employee remuneration of $100,000 per annum or more
• changing the term of office provisions for council members of Te Pūkenga.

This bill is available online from the ‘Related links’ panel.

What do you need to know?

• Submissions are publicly released and published to the Parliament website. Only your name or organisation’s name is required on a submission. Please keep your contact details separate, as if they are included on the submission they will become publicly available when the submission is released.
• If you wish to include information of a private or personal nature in your submission you should discuss this with the clerk of the committee before submitting.
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If you have any questions about your submission or the submission process please contact the Committee Staff through the contact details provided on this page.