Under sections 159X (1) and 159Y (3) (b) of the Education Act 1989, and section 7 of the Education (Tertiary Reform) Amendment Act 2002, the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) gives the following notice.
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1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice may be cited as the Education (Profile 2005-07 for Tertiary Education Organisations) Notice 2004.
(2) This notice applies from the date of its publication.
2. Introduction-To access funding from the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) for the 2005 year, all tertiary education organisations (TEOs), other than those exempted via this notice, are required to have an approved Profile, as described in section 159W of the Education Act 1989, in place by 15 December 2004 that covers the period 2005-2007. This Profile will be referred to as "Profile 2005-07".
Profiles are multi-purpose documents. They first and foremost "profile" each TEO. That is, a Profile is a TEO's document that outlines for its students and its other key stakeholders how it will give effect to its Charter and what its contribution in terms of the Tertiary Education Strategy (TES) and Statement of Tertiary Education Priorities (STEP) will be.
Second, Profiles during the process of negotiation and agreement with the TEC, provide a means of identifying and resolving areas of duplication and gaps in delivery and once completed, inform decisions on the allocation of public funding.
Overall, Profiles serve the following purposes, they:
? demonstrate how an organisation will give effect to its Charter;
? provide the basis for monitoring organisational performance, accountability for the use of public funds, and meeting other statutory requirements;
? contribute to a system-wide map of tertiary provision which can inform TEC in its role of giving effect to the TES;
? encourage relevance of educational provision to stakeholders' needs;
? encourage greater co-operation and collaboration; and
? provide information on existing and planned programmes and activities as a basis for allocating public funding.
Guiding Principles for Profiles
To achieve all these purposes, the processes and requirements for Profile 2005-07 have been specifically designed to maximise the presence of following principles:
Adding Value to the Tertiary System - the system of Profiles must minimise bureaucracy and unnecessary compliance activities. It must provide the sector with useful information that assists TEOs in their own planning, monitoring, and review activities.
Consistent but Responsive - the system of Profiles must take a consistent but responsive approach to Profile requirements for different parts of the sector (i.e. the core requirements are common across the sector but the design also takes into account the particular operational and legislative characteristics of different parts of the sector).
Reciprocity - the system of Profiles involves working with the sector to facilitate implementation of the TES and the STEP and to achieve the results agreed with the sector. Profiles must ensure processes are of benefit to TEOs and to TEC.
Autonomy of Tertiary Education Institutions (TEIs) - the system of Profiles must recognise the legislative autonomy of TEIs and the multiple and distinct accountabilities of TEIs.
Sector Involvement - encouraging the involvement of the sector in the specification of the information and other requirements for Profiles.
Content, Criteria, Timeline and Process for Profile 2005-07 for Tertiary Education Organisations
The content and criteria for Profile 2005-07 are based on the content requirements developed by the Charter and Profiles Working Party and endorsed by the Government.
The content, criteria, process and timeline requirements for Profile 2005-07 will be available on TEC's web site at:
www.tec.govt.nz from 15 March 2004.
Specific content, criteria, process and timeline requirements apply for:
? Universities;
? Polytechnics;
? Wananga;
? Colleges of Education;
? Industry Training Organisations;
? Private Training Establishments, Other Tertiary Education Providers (OTEPs) and Rural Education Activities Programmes (REAPs); and
? Schools that provide tertiary education or tertiary-education related services.
Alternatively a copy of the content, criteria, process and timeline requirements can be obtained from:
Profile 2005-07
Tertiary Education Commission
P.O. Box 27-048
Wellington
Guidelines and, where relevant, templates will be available on the TEC website from 15 March 2004 by these TEO groupings.
Exemptions for Certain Organisations
The following TEOs are exempted from the requirement to prepare and submit to the TEC a Profile for the period 2005-07:
? organisations that receive up to $50,000.00 of funding from the TEC in any one year; and
? organisations with which the TEC is contracting only pilot initiatives and which otherwise receive no funding from the TEC.
Dated at Wellington this 26th day of February 2004.
KAYE TURNER, Deputy Chair, Tertiary Education Commission.