✨ Enrolment Criteria for Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 93 — 31 AUGUST 2015
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Young parents
Student is pregnant or whose primary care responsibility for a child prevents school attendance.
Government funded
A student who is pregnant or a young parent, and otherwise eligible for a free place in a state or state-integrated school, may self-enrol. They may also be referred by a school, caregivers, family or whānau.
Enrolment applications for pregnant students must be supported by a medical certificate, a certificate or letter from a midwife, or a letter from Work and Income or Ministry of Social Development, and where appropriate include an educational report from the student’s current or previously attended school. Where, for confidentiality reasons, this educational report cannot be obtained, Te Kura will manage this directly with the student, their caregivers, family or whānau. After the birth, the student may stay on the Te Kura roll until the end of the school year.
Students enrolled under this gateway who have the primary care responsibility for their child may remain enrolled as a full-time student up to and including the end of the school year in which the student turns 19 years of age.
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Overseas domestic students
Group A
This group is for students that are New Zealand citizens or New Zealand permanent residents who:
Government funded
(a) will be absent from New Zealand for at least six months; and
(b) need to continue education while overseas, and who are children/dependants of:
(i) military, diplomatic personnel or others employed by the New Zealand Government whose duties take them overseas;
(ii) university staff and others on sabbatical leave; or
(iii) teachers recruited by inter-governmental or non-governmental organisations for service overseas.
Parents/caregivers must make a written declaration that they meet the following criteria for such students to be enrolled:
(a) No employer subsidy towards the education of the student is provided;
(b) they intend to return to New Zealand on completion of the service overseas; and
(c) there is no suitable local education service available, as assessed by the parents/caregivers.
The parent/caregiver’s employer must also verify all three criteria.
The initial application for enrolment must be made within 12 months of the departure of the family from New Zealand. There is no maximum period of enrolment.
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