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.
N o t i c e
1. This notice may be cited as the Education (Profiles 2006-08 for Tertiary Education Organisations) Notice 2005.
2. This notice applies from the date of its publication.
Introduction
To access funding from the TEC for the 2006 year, all tertiary education organisations (TEO), 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 2005 that covers the period 2006-2008.
This profile will be referred to as “Profile 2006-08”.
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 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 the 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.
Content, Criteria, Timeline and Process for Profiles
2006-08 for Tertiary Education Organisations
The content and criteria for Profile 2006-08 are based on the content requirements developed by the Charter and Profiles Working Party and endorsed by the Government.
Specific content and assessment criteria, and the timetable for profile submission apply for:
? universities;
? polytechnics;
? wananga;
? colleges of education;
? industry training organisations;
? private training establishments;
? rural education activities programmes (REAPs), other tertiary education providers (OTEPs) and community groups; and
? schools which provide tertiary education or tertiary-education related services.
The content and assessment criteria, process and profile submission date requirements for Profiles 2006-08 for each of the above TEO groupings are available on the TEC’s web site at www.tec.govt.nz from 10 March 2005.
Alternatively, a copy of the content, assessment criteria, process and profile submission date requirements can be obtained from:
Profile 2006-08
Tertiary Education Commission
P.O. Box 27-048
Wellington.
Guidelines and, where relevant, templates will be available on the TEC web site from 31 March 2005 for 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 2006-08:
? Organisations that receive up to $50,000.00 of funding from the TEC in any one year;
? organisations that the TEC is contracting for only pilot initiatives and that otherwise receive no funding from the TEC; and
? employers only receiving workplace literacy funding from the TEC.
Dated at Wellington this 7th day of March 2005.
KAYE TURNER, Acting Chair, Tertiary Education Commission.