The government has proposed merging all 16 polytechnics into one and significantly reforming industry training organisations to address falling enrolments and millions of dollars in deficits in a “broken” sector.
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Developing business aspirations within the community
A pop-up business school at the Tolaga Bay Innovation Hub is helping whānau in the remote rural community gain business knowledge and become self-employed.
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Second junior doctors’ strike underway
The second 48 hour long junior doctors’ strike in a month is underway and a third is on the cards. More than 3,000 junior doctors arranged the strike, with many walking off the job to protest better work conditions.
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Rise in benefit claimants linked to pop. growth- Sepuloni
Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni is rubbishing the opposition's claims that government softness on sanctions is to blame for 11,000 more people receiving the Jobseeker Support benefit. Sepuloni says overall benefit numbers were stable and only 0.1-percent higher than last year.
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$70mil Waikato chicken hatchery employs locals
Waikato marae clusters Ngā Muka Development Trust and Waahi Whānui are backing the new American $70mil chicken hatchery at Whangape near Huntly, which will supply to 10 percent of the world's markets. Ngā Muka Chair Glen Tupuhi says the plant has provided jobs for locals.
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Call for seasonal workers to receive living wage
The Amalgamated Workers Union (AWUNZ) says the government should pay the living wage to seasonal orchard workers. The living wage is the income necessary to provide workers and their families with the basic necessities of life.
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Driver licence help for offenders & ex-prisoners
Offenders and ex-prisoners are being given a second chance with a driving programme in the Eastern BOP aimed at helping young people off the pathway to prison and into work.
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Marae equips unemployed with beekeeping skills
Nearly twenty unemployed young men are feeling optimistic about the future having graduated with new skills from the Tapu Te Ranga Marae pilot apiarist course, which links tikanga Māori with beekeeping skills.
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Hikurangi Cannabis growing strong
Hikurangi Cannabis Company has received a $7mil boost from private investors, taking them a step closer to setting up a supply-chain for medicinal cannabis.
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Fletcher Building takes on Māori and Pacific Island values
Fletcher Building, the biggest construction firm in New Zealand is training young employees in Māori and Pacific Island values. Sixteen employees graduated from the company’s learning and development programme at Mataatua Marae in Tāmaki Makaurau today.
