NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 20 — 5 MARCH 2015

4. Introduction—A number of the funding mechanisms determined by the Minister for Tertiary Education Skills and Employment under section 159L of the Education Act 1989 specify funding to be paid by the TEC to fund tertiary educations organisations (TEOs) via plans.

Therefore, to be eligible to access TEC funding under those funding mechanisms from 2015 onwards, all TEOs are required to submit a proposed plan (unless the TEC has exempted a TEO from the requirement to submit a proposed plan in accordance with section 159U of the Education Act 1989).

The TEC may decide to fund the tertiary education programmes and activities described in a proposed plan submitted by a TEO for a period of up to three years.

Previous allocation of TEC funding does not entitle a TEO to future funding at any level from the TEC.

The amount of detail in the proposed plan will depend on the size and complexity of the TEO submitting the plan.

5. Plan Content—The proposed plan must include the following parts, each of which must clearly connect and align with the others:

(i) Strategic Intent

Performance story

The Strategic Intent section of a proposed plan (previously called the Plan Context) must outline the value proposition that the TEO will deliver over the coming three years – its performance story – including:

• the TEO’s mission and distinctive role within the overall network of provision; and
• its strategic direction, comprising:
  • the TEO’s proposed outcomes for the coming three years, and why the TEO has decided to seek those outcomes, given government priorities and the needs of the TEO’s stakeholders; and
  • what the TEO is going to do and produce (ie activities and outputs) over the coming three years in order to achieve those outcomes, and why those are the right things to do and produce given the TEO’s operating environment, government priorities, the needs of its stakeholders, and evidence about what works; and
  • how the TEO intends to measure its progress in achieving its strategic direction, including what indicators it will use.

The Strategic Intent section of a TEO’s proposed plan must also summarise:

• how the TEO has identified the needs of its key stakeholders in the community it serves, including:
  • employers, businesses or industries relevant to the TEO’s areas of delivery; and
  • learners or prospective learners, in particular those who are Māori, or Pasifika, or under the age of 25, or who have low levels of literacy, language, and numeracy; and
  • the communities that support Māori and Pasifika learners; and
• how the TEO will respond to the needs of these key stakeholders; and
• how the TEO will report to its key stakeholders on progress towards meeting their needs; and
• how the TEO has performed against the commitments it made in its last plan (for TEOs that have previously received plan funding); and
• the findings of any quality assurance reviews; and
• any key changes the TEO is making that are likely to have a significant impact on its educational performance or other outcomes; and
• any key new activities the TEO is contemplating undertaking over the next three years.

Contribution to Government priorities

The Strategic Intent section must also explain how the TEO intends to respond to the Government’s priorities in the Tertiary Education Strategy 2014–2019 in the coming three years. This must include information about how the TEO will:

• identify and respond to the needs of industry and employers and publish information to help inform enrolment choices (the “Delivering Skills for Industry” priority of the Tertiary Education Strategy 2014–2019); and
• attract and engage at-risk young people and support them to progress through tertiary education and into sustainable work (“Getting at-risk young people into a career”); and
• attract and engage Māori and Pasifika students and support them to succeed educationally and achieve 38