The Education and Workforce Committee is calling for submissions on the Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 3).

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.

Make a submission on the bill by 11.59pm on Monday, 1 May 2023.

For more details about the bill:

• Read the full content of the bill
• Watch what’s been said about the bill in Parliament
• Follow the committee’s Facebook page for updates

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