Kia ora koutou,
E ngā iwi, e ngā reo, e ngā karangatanga maha o ngā hau e whā, tēnei te mihi atu ki a koutou katoa.
One of the most significant celebrations in the Māori calendar is Matariki – the indigenous New Year. Aotearoa New Zealand’s first national holiday to specifically recognise and celebrate mātauranga Māori is a chance for all New Zealanders to remind ourselves of the very special place we occupy in the world.
Our kaimahi and ākonga will have an exclusive Matariki educational experience with an online hui, Whakanuia Te Kāhui o Matariki, from 1.30pm today. As well as learning about te ao Māori and the mātauranga associated with Matariki and the maramataka (Māori lunar calendar), I will be introducing participants to our new wellbeing framework, Te Pae Māhutonga.
I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank two of the Government’s expert advisors from the Matariki Advisory Group – chair Professor Rangiānehu Mātāmua and member Victoria Campbell – who will join our lecturer Mataia Keepa to share their knowledge of Matariki with us all during the webinar event. This special hui will be hosted by our Communications team kaimahi, Julian Wilcox.
Matariki is a time of unity, renewal, celebration and hope. With the challenges we have all faced in recent times, it allows us to come together with whānau and friends to pause, reflect and look optimistically to the future.
This is an exciting and critical period in the history of Aotearoa New Zealand, where together, we will unify our vocational and on-the-job learning sector for the success of all ākonga here and beyond.
I am filled with great hope about our evolving national identity and look forward to seeing the people of Aotearoa enjoying a long weekend with friends and whānau under the watchful eye of Matariki.
Matariki hunga nui – Matariki brings us together.
Stephen Town
Kaiwhakahaere Mātāmua | Chief Executive
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Kōrero hou mō te Tauira Whakahaere
I a mātou e koke nei ki te weheruatanga o te tau me te wā Whakawhiti Kōrero mō te Hanganga e Whakaarohia ana, kua tuaringia ētahi taipitopito e pā ana ki ngā tukanga me ngā ariā kei muri i ngā mahi ka tirohia, ka matapakihia e koutou.
Kei tēnei o ngā putanga kōrero he pārongo mō ngā tukanga Whakawhiti Kōrero, tukanga hoahoa hoki i whakamahia hei whakarite i te Hanganga e Whakaarohia ana – Tauira Whakahaere: Te Pūkenga Pae 1 He Whakawhiti Kōrero mō te Hanganga e Whakaarohia ana.
Ka whakauruuru mai ki te Hanganga ngā Kōtuinga Ako e rua, me ngā mahi hei whakamana i ngā rohe. Hei ngā putanga o Ngā Taipitopito e whai mai ana ka tuarihia he kōrero anō kia mōhio ai koe ki ō mātou whakaaro i mua i te wā whakawhiti kōrero.
Te whakawhiti kōrero mō te Hanganga e Whakaarohia ana
E hāngai ngātahi ana te mahi hoahoa a te aramahi Whakatere Ake i te Āheinga ki te Mahi me tērā a te aramahi Tukunga. Nā reira, mai i te Tūrei 19 Hūrae ki te Tūrei 16 Ākuhata ka whai wā mātou ki te whakawhiti kōrero mō te hanganga o te whakahaere.
Ko wai e hoahoa ana i te Hanganga?
Kei a Stephen Town, te Kaiwhakahaere Mātāmua o Te Pūkenga te kōrero whakamutunga mō tō mātou Hanganga, ā, nāna tonu i whakahau i ngā pakihi motuhake e rua, a Volte me MSH. I mahitahi ēnei pakihi me te Ohu Hoahoa Tiriti o Waitangi, me ētahi mātanga kaupapa (ngā SME) nō roto ma i te kōtuinga ki te whakarite i ngā hoahoa hukihuki hei titiro, hei whakawhiti kōrero mā tatou, ā, atu i a rātou ko te Ohu Tauira Whakahaere tērā me ētahi atu SME e whakamātau ana i ngā hoahoanga.
He aha te tukanga i whāia e te Rōpū Hoahoa Te Tiriti o Waitangi?
E mātua whakarite ana te Ohu Hoahoa Te Tiriti o Waitangi kia noho taketake ai Te Tiriti o Waitangi me ngā tirohanga Māori ki te hoanga o tō mātou Hanganga Hou.
I whakamōhiotia ngā tāngata o tēnei rōpū i te 13 May edition of Ngā Taipitopito.
Nā runga i ōna wheako me ōna anō mōhiotanga i arotake ai te Ohu Hoahoa Te Tiriti o Waitangi i te Hanganga e Whakaarohia Ana, i runga i te takune ki te hāpai i ngā tika o ngā hoa Tiriti me ngāi Māori. Kei raro nei ngā hīkoitanga i whāia e te ohu.
1. Nā ngā Hoa Tiriti i tautohu ētahi mahi Tino Whaitake ki te Tiriti, ā, me te aha, me mātua whai wāhi mai a ngāi Māori ki te hoanga o ēnei mahi. Ko te mahi Tino Whaitake ki te Tiriti ko tērā ina ka āta hoahoatia, ka āta whakamahia hoki ko te hua ko te whakamana i te Tiriti; manohi anō, ki te hē te mahi hoahoa, me te whakamahi e kore e tukua tētahi hua hei whakamana i te Tiriti.
2. I aromatawaitia ngā mahi i roto i te Tauira Whakahere kia kite ai te whaitake Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ka tautohua ngā mahi Tino Whaitake, ā, ka noho te mana hoahoa mō aua mahi ki te Ohu Hoahoa Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
3. Ka hoahoatia aua mahi e te Ohu Hoahoa Te Tiriti o Waitangi e ai ki ngā tohutohu hoahoa i roto i ngā Paearu Hoahoa Tiriti.
4. Kia oti te hoahoa i ngā mahi Tiho Whaitake Tiriti, ka aromatawaitia ēnei mahi e ngā rōpū Hoahoa Kaupapa me te Ohu Tauira Whakahaere mō te āheinga o te whakahaere.
He aha te tukanga i whāia e ngā aramahi Whakatere Ake i te Āheinga ki te Mahi?
Kua whakawhanakehia e te aramahi Whakatere Ake i te Āheinga tētahi tauira mahi tauwhānui mō tō mātou whakahaere hou, ā, i whai rātou i tētahi tukanga hoahoa e rite ana ki tērā i whāia hei whakarite i te Hanganga Hou.
Tuitui ai tēnei hanganga i ngā Kōtuinga Ako (ako, tā te ākonga hauora me ngā mahi a te kaitukumahi ), Ngā Rohe, me te whakatōpū mai i te tohungatanga ki tētahi whakahaere kotahi hei whakapiki ake i te kaha o ngā Whakahaere Whakangungu Ahumahi Whakawhiti (ngā TITO), ngā Pūtahi Hangarau me ngā Kuratini (ngā ITP).
Te Hanga i te Hoanga Tauwhānui: Ngā aramahi Tukunga me te Whakatere Ake i te Āheinga ki te Mahi
Kua whakaritea e ngā rōpū hoahoa tētahi Hoanga Tauwhānui. Ehara tēnei i te hanganga whakahaere, e kāo, engari kē he hoanga tēnei e ārahi ana i te hanganga katoa o tētahi whakahaere, ōna whakahaerenga, me ngā ara poutama e tika ana hei waihanga i tā te whakahaere hanganga.
Ko te Hoanga Tauwhānui nāna i waihangatia ai tō mātou Hanganga Hou i whanakehia i runga i te mahitahi me ngā SME me ngā kaiārahi puta noa i te kōtuinga, me ngā kōrero mai i ngā tuhinga me ngā anga pūtake – pērā i te Tūtohinga me ngā Mahi Matua a Te Pūkenga e kōrerotia ana i roto i te Education & Training Act 2020. Kua āta rārangitia te tukanga i raro nei.
Tukanga Hoahoa
Mātua rā, i whai māramatanga te rōpū Tukunga me tērā o te Whakatere Ake i te Āheinga ki te pūtake o te Tauira Whakahaere e tāpaetia, ā, i pānui haere, i ‘whakarongo’ rānei ki ngā whakahokinga kōrero i tuarihia mā ngā whaitanga o 2021. Kātahi, ka tahuri rātou ki te waihanga i tētahi hoanga whakahaere tauwhānui.
I mahi mārire ngā rōpū e rua kia oti mai he hoanga e ai ki ngā takohanga me ngā tikanga mahi. Arā, kia mahitahi me ētahi SME ki te hanga i tētahi haurahi hoahoa hei whakatinana i Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Nā runga i te āwhina mai o ngā kaimahi Kōtuinga, i mahi ngā rōpū hoahoa e rua ki tā ngā tuhinga pūtake (me ā mātou pūrongo Te Rito; ā mātou atahanga mō ngā ākonga, ngā kaimahi me ngā kaitukumahi; me te Tūtohinga), me ngā takohanga (me mātua whakarite kia noho ko ngā ākonga, me ō rātou whānau te pūtake).
Nā tēnei mahi i hua mai ai tētahi mahere e tohu ana me pēhea e whakaritea ai ngā āhuatanga ake o tā te whakahaere hoanga. I mahitahi anō ngā rōpū hoahoa me ētahi kaimahi Kōtuinga ki te tautuhi i te hoanga tauwhānui me te whakamārama i ngā hononga e whakaaturia ana e te hoanga.
Operating Model update: Our Proposed Structure Consultation and design
As we move closer to our mid-year Consultation on Our Proposed Structure, we’re sharing details about the processes and concepts that sit behind the mahi you’ll be giving feedback on.
Today’s article shares information about the Consultation and the design processes used to develop Our Proposed Structure - Operating Model: Te Pūkenga Horizon 1 Consultation on Proposed Organisation Structure.
Our Proposed Structure will incorporate both Ako Networks and how we empower regions. We will share more on these in future editions of Ngā Taipitopito so you can be familiar with the thinking before consultation.
Our Proposed Structure consultation
The organisation structure design work undertaken by the Accelerated Enabling Functions workstream and Delivery workstreams has aligned. This means that we will be consulting on our full organisation structure in one mid-year consultation, Tuesday 19 July to Tuesday 16 August.
Who is designing Our Proposed Structure?
Stephen Town as Chief Executive of Te Pūkenga is the ultimate decision maker of Our Proposed Structure and has given clear design direction to two specialist consultancy agencies, Volte and MSH. These agencies have worked alongside Te Tiriti o Waitangi Design Group, and subject matter experts (SMEs) within the network to develop the draft designs we will consult on and we have had the Operating Model Working Group as well as other SMEs testing the designs.
What process did Te Tiriti o Waitangi Design Group follow?
Te Tiriti o Waitangi Design Working Group are ensuring that Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Māori perspectives are embedded and normalised in the design of Our Proposed Structure.
We introduced this group in the 13 May edition of Ngā Taipitopito.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi Design Working Group used their experience and insight to review and advise on Our Proposed Structure, with the intent of upholding the rights of Tiriti partners and Māori. The technical steps used by the group are below.
1. Tiriti Partners identified a group of functions that have High Tiriti Relevance and require a high degree of Māori input into the way these functions are designed. A High Tiriti Relevance function is one that if thoughtfully designed and implemented can deliver a Tiriti honouring outcome; or if poorly designed and implemented could prevent a Tiriti honouring outcome from being delivered.
2. Functions within the Operating Model were assessed to determine relevance to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Highly relevant functions will be identified and the design authority for these functions will rest with the Te Tiriti o Waitangi Design Working Group.
3. Te Tiriti o Waitangi Design Working Group will draft these functions according to the design specifications in the Tiriti Design Criteria.
4. Once the High Tiriti Relevance functional design has been drafted, these functions and organisational structure to enable them will then be assessed by the Project Design teams and the Operating Model Working Group for operational workability.
What process did the Design and Accelerated Enabling Functions workstreams follow?
The Design workstream and the Accelerated Enabling Functions workstream have developed a high-level functional model for our new organisation and have followed a similar design process to develop Our Proposed Structure.
This structure will weave together Ako Networks (learning, ākonga wellbeing, and employer functions), Regions, and centralised expertise into one organisation that will build on the strengths of Transitional Industry Training Organisations (TITOs) and Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs).
Building the High-Level Design: Delivery and Accelerated Enabling Functions workstreams
The design teams have developed a High-Level Design. This isn’t an organisation structure, instead it guides the overall shape of an organisation, the way it’s arranged and the scaffolding needed to create an organisation’s structure.
The High-Level Design that shaped Our Proposed Structure has been developed in collaboration with SMEs and leaders from across the network, and has been informed by important foundational documents and frameworks – including the Charter and Functions of Te Pūkenga included in the Education & Training Act 2020. We’ve outlined the process in more detail, below.
Design Process
First, both the Delivery and Accelerated Enabling Functions teams formed a clear understanding of the proposed Operating Model purpose, and read through or ‘listened’ to the feedback shared through 2021’s engagement. Next, they began creating a high-level organisational design.
Both teams have been careful to design according to our commitments and working practices. This meant working with some SMEs to shape a design approach that gives effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. With the help of Network kaimahi, both design teams have worked in accordance with our foundational documents (including our Te Rito reports; Te Pae Tawhiti Insights Report, our Personas for learners, kaimahi and employers; and Charter), and commitments (ensure that ākonga, with their whānau, are at our centre).
This mahi developed a road map for how the specifics of how organisation design can be developed. Design teams again partnered with some Network kaimahi to define the high-level design and understand the connections and relationships the design outlined.
Operating Model update: How to give feedback on Our Proposed Structure
In our previous pānui, we shared with you that we will begin Consultation on Our Proposed Structure from Tuesday 19 July. The formal name of this mahi is “Operating Model: Te Pūkenga Horizon 1 Consultation on our Proposed Organisation Structure”. The Consultation period will run through to Tuesday 16 August.
Today, we will set out how you can contribute to the Consultation and provide your feedback. We are keen to ensure that we build a structure that enables our Network to come together as one, forming New Zealand’s largest tertiary education organisation.
Your Voice matters
During the Consultation all Network kaimahi (this includes Te Pūkenga WBL, ITP subsidiaries, TITO’s and Te Pūkenga national office kaimahi) will be provided with Our Proposed Structure and guided through the feedback and Consultation process.
We will share information with you through Your Voice (our online feedback platform), hui - both kanohi ki te kanohi and online, and Ngā Taipitopito. There will be hui with different hosts – such as unions, local leadership and Te Pūkenga leadership.
To make sure our partners and stakeholders (like learners and employers) are aware of this important work, we will also share high-level information through tepukenga.ac.nz and through engagement with those partners and stakeholders.
How you will be able to give feedback
All Network kaimahi are encouraged to share their views through the Consultation to refine Our Proposed Structure. We are setting up easy to access feedback channels to help you do this.
You will be welcome to share feedback as both an individual and as a rōpū. How often you give feedback, and how much you’d like to share about your views is up to you.
Your Voice
Your Voice is a specialised consultation platform and many of you will be familiar with it through the engagement on our Operating Model in 2021. Our Proposed Structure will be on Your Voice for your review, and be the central place for you to share feedback.
Only Network kaimahi will be able to access the full Consultation document, because the change affects you directly. This also keeps information within the Network and ahead of any communications with the public.
To use Your Voice and access the full details of Our Proposed Structure, if you have a profile set up already, you can log back in with the same details. If you need to set up a new profile, it is a simple two minute process you can start now through this link – yourvoice.tepukenga.ac.nz.
How your feedback shapes Te Pūkenga
We’ve taken care in developing Our Proposed Structure, but we won’t have everything right. We need your feedback to finalise how we will organise ourselves ahead of our first Horizon 1, 1 January 2023.
You can read more about our Horizons in Ko tāu e kite ai | What you can expect.
There is other mahi happening to help us reach these Horizons. You can read more about Our transition pathway on our website.
What happens to your feedback
Once you’ve shared your feedback, it will be carefully considered and used to confirm our structure. We will then release a decision document to confirm the roles available within the new structure. This is when our Horizon 1 structure will be known and you’ll be clear on your place within Te Pūkenga.
Taonga Māori Kaupapa
E whai ana a Te Pukenga i tētahi kaupapa hei tautohu i ngā taonga Māori katoa kei ngā āpitihanga katoa Te Pūkenga e pupuritia ana.
Ko tētahi whakamārama pai mō te taonga Māori ko ngā taonga kaimanawa, ngā taonga ahurea rānei i kohaina mai, tae atu hoki ki te mātauranga Māori.
Ko te whānuitanga o te taonga Māori ko te wharenui, ngā ingoa o ngā whare, he whenua, he pā harakeke me ngā mahi toi, ngā karahipi, ngā kōrero mātauranga Māori me ngā rauemi, tae atu ki ngā tūranga mahi i whakatūria ngātahitia me ngā mana whenua.
E mōhio ana a Te Pūkenga hei whakatinana i Te Tiriti o Waitangi me tiaki mārire ia i ngā taonga Māori i runga anō i ngā tikanga Māori.
Mā tēnei kaupapa e tautohu ngā momo taonga kei a tātou – puta noa i te kōtuinga katoa; mā te mahi rārangi.
Ka whakaritea he tukanga me ōna tikanga pai anō e tiakina ai, e ‘pupuritia ai’ hoki aua taonga me te whakawhiti kōrero me te mana whenua, te iwi, ngā hapū, ngā kaimahi matua ko wai rānei te hunga tika hei kaitiaki.
Ko haere ngā mahi o tēnei kaupapa i te taha o Manu Tioro Tīonga e arahina ana e Julian Wilcox, Amomai Pihama me ētahi atu mema o Te Ohu Reo me ngā Tikanga o Te Pūkenga.
Ko te hunga o tēnei rōpū he mema o tō mātou kōtuinga āpitihanga, ā, ko tā rātou he hopu i te hītori te whenua me te tikanga o ngā ingoa.
Nā Ana Morrison te DCE Whakahoatanga me te Ōritetanga rāua ko Kieran Hewitson, Kaikōkiri Mahi Tiriti, i whakahaere te hui tuihono, arā, Te Turuturu mō te Taonga Māori Kaupapa.
E wātea mai ana te whakarāpopotonga o te whakaaturanga me Ngā FAQs: Te Turuturu 2022: Taonga Māori Project.
Safeguarding our taonga Māori
Te Pūkenga is undertaking an inventory of taonga Māori across the entire subsidiary network.
As part of its commitment to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Te Pūkenga acknowledges that it needs to proactively and actively protect taonga Māori in ways that are informed by tikanga Māori – Māori customary practices.
Taonga Māori are best described as precious possessions or cultural items that have been gifted; it also includes mātauranga Māori or Māori knowledge and wisdom.
They range from whare (meeting houses), building names, whenua (land or landmarks) and pā harakeke (flax bushes) to artworks, scholarships, mātauranga Māori content and resources, and positions established in collaboration with mana whenua.
An inventory gathering exercise will identify the various taonga that exist across our national network.
Protection mechanisms will be developed with plans on how to best protect and ‘hold’ these taonga while determining the most appropriate kaitiaki with mana whenua, iwi, hapū and key kaimahi.
The Taonga Māori Project is working alongside Manu Tioro Tīonga led by Julian Wilcox, Amomai Pihama and other members of Te Ohu Reo me ngā Tikanga of Te Pūkenga.
The group are visiting members of our subsidiary network to capture the historical significance of whenua and names.
Deputy Chief Executive, Partnerships and Equity Ana Morrison and Kieran Hewitson, Kaikōkiri (Director), Tiriti Practice, recently hosted an online Te Turuturu hui focusing on the Taonga Māori Project.
A summary of the presentation and FAQs is available here: Te Turuturu 2022: Taonga Māori Project.
2021 Annual Report released
Te Pūkenga has released its 2021 Annual Report, covering 1 January to 31 December 2021, the first Annual Report covering a 12-month period.
The report brings together information from 16 independently operating Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) as well as Te Pūkenga Work Based Learning (WBL), which includes four former Industry Training Organisations (ITOs).
“With 205,328 learners across Te Pūkenga network, 8,018 full-time-equivalent kaimahi (staff), the report illustrates the size and scale of our network – and the potential we have to deliver vocational and applied learning that meets the needs of our communities and regions,” Chief Executive Stephen Town says.
Financially Te Pūkenga network performed better than expected, with some ITP subsidiaries and Work Based Learning delivering a surplus due to higher than anticipated revenue. As a group this led to a $7.623m surplus.
“We know we need to build in resilience to social and economic changes so we are truly sustainable in the future. This means we must be adaptable so we can fit and flex as the world shifts and changes.
“We expect that will mean ongoing iterative change to the system as we continue to strive to do better for ākonga, to close the equity gap and support communities across Aotearoa,” he says.
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Secondment opportunities
We often have exciting opportunities to join our Te Pūkenga team, and you can now find these on our internal vacancies page, which will be updated as new opportunities become available. Use this page to keep an eye out for ways you can get involved with our mahi.
New opportunities posted this week:
Project Manager, Learner Journey and Experience