Ref: OI-22-00070 
Level 9, 44 The Terrace 
 
PO Box 27048 
 
24 March 2022 
Wel ington, New Zealand 6141 
 
P +64 4 462 5200 
 
www.tec.govt.nz 
Kelly Roe 
via: [FYI request #18691 email] 
 
 
Tēnā koe Kelly 
 
Thank you for your emails, received on 27 February 2022. Your emails contained several questions 
and statements. 
 
I would like to refer you to the recent correspondence we sent you directly. The information you 
have requested is contained in those responses and there is no additional information to provide to 
you. 
 
As previously advised, under the Education and Training Act 2020, universities are granted academic 
freedom and institutional autonomy to support their teaching and research activities and neither the 
TEC nor Ministers can intervene with many of the matters you have raised.  Nor can we comment on 
issues that have been dealt with through a judicial process. 
 
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision. 
Information about how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or 
freephone 0800 802 602. 
 
 
 
Nāku noa, nā 
 
 
 
Chief Executive 
Tertiary Education Commission 
 
 
 
 

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Document Outline

• Ms Kelly Roe has raised questions and made statements that have been repeated on numerous occasions
• There is guidance available on managing repeated or vexatious requests and/or requestors
• We can reply to the request made through FYI while also implementing the guidance and a management plan

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