NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 47 — 4 MAY 2017

determine if TEOs will receive funding approval; and

3. section 159YO: The matters that TEOs must include in their plan summary.

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

1) Content of TEOs’ proposed plans

A. Content

Mission and role

Pursuant to section 159P(c), the TEO must describe its mission and role for the term of the plan, including its role within the overall network of provision.

The TEO should demonstrate that it understands its distinctive mission and role within the system, and how this relates to the community it serves, and that it has a sustainable plan for fulfilling this mission and role through its programmes and activities.

Contribution to Government priorities

Pursuant to section 159P(a), the TEO must describe out how it will give effect to the Government’s current and medium-term priorities as described in the Tertiary Education Strategy 2014–2019 (“Strategy”). 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 Strategy);
• 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” priority of the Strategy);
• attract and engage Māori and Pasifika learners and support them to succeed educationally and achieve better outcomes (“Boosting achievement of Māori and Pasifika” priority of the Strategy);
• respond to adult foundation learners with literacy and numeracy skill needs (“Improving adult literacy and numeracy” priority of the Strategy);
• if it is a research-based institution, manage its resources to support its research strategy and implementation plan, and support innovation (especially commercial innovation) through research, knowledge exchange, and human capital development (“Strengthening research-based institutions” priority of the Strategy); and
• help to increase the value of international education to New Zealand (“Growing international linkages” priority of the Strategy).

Addressing the needs of stakeholders

Pursuant to section 159P(b), the TEO must describe how it will address the needs of its stakeholders (including, without limitation, learners enrolled with the organisation). This section will include a description of:

• who its key stakeholders are, which may include:
  • learners enrolled with the TEO or prospective learners (in particular those who are Māori, or Pasifika, or young people, or who have low levels of literacy, language, and numeracy);
  • employers, businesses or industries relevant to the TEO’s areas of delivery; and
  • relevant communities, including those that support Māori and Pasifika learners;
• how the TEO has identified the needs of its key stakeholders in the community it serves;
• 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.

Programmes and activities

Pursuant to sections 159P(d) and (f), the TEO must set out a description of all:

• tertiary education programmes run by the organisation for which the organisation is seeking funding under section 159YA and specify the amount of funding sought in relation to those programmes;
• activities (including, without limitation, programmes and initiatives that will be undertaken by the organisation in order to build its capability) for which the organisation is seeking funding under section

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