by admin | Dec 12, 2016 | Project TacklingPovertyNZ, Project TalentNZ
The Institute’s response to the Productivity Commission’s New Models of Tertiary Education Draft Report is now available online. In this submission we discuss our response to their draft report, possible strategic policy levers designed to improve New...
by admin | Nov 8, 2016 | Project TacklingPovertyNZ
As part of the TacklingPovertyNZ project, the Institute organised a meeting with the mayors from the 2016 one-day workshops and Deputy Prime Minister Hon Bill English on Thursday, 3 November 2016. The purpose of the meeting was to share with the Minister observations...
by admin | Oct 25, 2016 | Project TacklingPovertyNZ
At the TacklingPovertyNZ Gisborne workshop held on 31 August 2016, participants discussed challenges and opportunities in the local area. Six key themes and groups emerged: working families/working poor, gangs and drug users, children under 12, mental health, elderly,...
by admin | Oct 25, 2016 | Project TacklingPovertyNZ
At the TacklingPovertyNZ Kaitaia workshop held on 15 September 2016, participants discussed challenges and opportunities in the local area. Six key themes and groups emerged: communication and mapping, geographic isolation, changing the poverty mind-set, grandparents...
by admin | Oct 25, 2016 | Project TacklingPovertyNZ
At the TacklingPovertyNZ Kaikohe workshop held on 16 September 2016, participants discussed challenges and opportunities in the local area. Six key themes and groups emerged: economy, social services and community, rural isolation, education and health. From these, 36...
by admin | Oct 17, 2016 | Project TacklingPovertyNZ
At the TacklingPovertyNZ Gisborne workshop held on 31 August 2016, participants discussed challenges and opportunities in the local area. Six key themes and groups emerged: working families/working poor, gangs and drug users, children under 12, mental health, elderly,...