Letter of Expectation and Email Communications

William James made this Official Information request to Te Pūkenga—New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology

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From: William James

Dear Te Pūkenga—New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology,

I hope this letter finds you well. I am writing to request formally, under the provisions of the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), a PDF copy or the next best alternative of the Letter of Expectation that Te Pūkenga received from the National Government's Tertiary Education and Skills Minister. I am seeking the full and unredacted document.

Additionally, I am requesting access to any email communications from relevant senior leadership team members, as listed on the Te Pūkenga website (https://www.tepūkenga.ac.nz/our-work/abo...). Specifically, I am interested in communications that discuss potential changes in priorities for the new government, any dialogue about the future state of Te Pūkenga, and discussions related to future planning. This includes considerations of signals for changes, general concerns surrounding possible adjustments aligned with National's signalled 100-day action plan, or any other matters of a similar nature.

To narrow the scope of the request, I am specifically interested in emails sent or received from the night of the New Zealand General Election (Saturday, 14 October 2023) up to the date this email is received and processed.

I appreciate your attention to this matter and look forward to your prompt response following the timelines specified in the Act.

Kind regards,
William

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Kia ora William

 

Thank you for your email dated 7 December 2023 requesting information from
Te Pûkenga – New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology.

 

Your request is being considered under the Official information Act 1982.

 

Allowing for the summer holiday period (25 December – 15 January) you can
expect a decision on your request within 20 working days, by 26 January
2024.

 

Ngâ mihi

Cat

 

Office of the Chief Executive

 

Level 2, Wintec House
Cnr Anglesea & Nisbet Streets
Hamilton 3204
— 
[1]tepûkenga.ac.nz  

 

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Kia ora William

 

Further to our acknowledgement of your request for information dated 7
December, we set out some important information and questions for you
below.

 

Letter of Expectations

A copy of the Letter of Expectations for Te Pûkenga from Penny Simmonds,
Minister for Tertiary Education and Skills, is publicly available on
parliament’s website: [1]Letter of Expections for Te Pûkenga.pdf
(beehive.govt.nz)

Therefore, we would ask if you are happy to withdraw this first part of
your request. Should you choose not to withdraw this part of your request
we may decide to refuse it under section 18(d) of the Official Information
Act (OIA) as the information is already publicly available.

 

Email Communications of Senior Leadership team

We are seeking refinement of the second part of your request.

 

We are considering whether full collation and research to provide the
information within scope of the second part of your request, would require
an amount of time and effort that would have a significant and
unreasonable impact on the ability for Te Pûkenga kaimahi (staff) to carry
out their other day to day operations. As part of these considerations, we
must contemplate whether refusal of this question under section 18(f) of
the OIA is an option due to substantial collation and research.

To review all emails of the nine senior leadership kaimahi who appear on
the weblink you provided, for a period of almost two months, would be a
huge task for the individuals and their executive assistants involved.

As part of our consideration we ask whether you would consider refining
your request to a specific keyword or keywords, such as “100-day plan”?

This way we may be able to carry out a search of the leadership teams’
emails using these keywords.

 

With the above points in mind, please could you confirm back to us on the
following points:

 

o Are you happy to withdraw your request for a pdf copy of the Letter of
Expectations?
o Have you one or two keywords that we may use to search for emails
within scope of your interest?

 

Please could you reply back to us through return email by close of
business Friday 22 December.

 

Ngâ mihi

Cat

 

Office of the Chief Executive

 

Level 2, Wintec House
Cnr Anglesea & Nisbet Streets
Hamilton 3204
— 
[2]tepûkenga.ac.nz 

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From: William James

Dear Cat,

Please consider my withdrawal from section 1 of the OIA request, for the pdf copy of the Letter of
Expectations.

Have you one or two keywords that we may use to search for emails
within scope of your interest?

Please include "National [government]" and "100 day plan" as my search references.

Yours sincerely,

William James

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Kia ora William

 

Many thanks for your email below, with confirmation of withdrawal of part
one and refinement of part two of your request by providing two key words.

We will come back to you as soon as we can.

 

Ngâ mihi

Cat

 

Office of the Chief Executive

 

Level 2, Wintec House
Cnr Anglesea & Nisbet Streets
Hamilton 3204
— 
[1]tepûkenga.ac.nz  

 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: William James [2][FOI #25077 email]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2023 9:14 PM
To: OIA [3][Te Pūkenga—New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology request email]
Subject: Re: TP230277 Seeking refinement of your request dated 7 December
2023

 

Dear Cat,

 

Please consider my withdrawal from section 1 of the OIA request, for the
pdf copy of the Letter of Expectations.

 

Have you one or two keywords that we may use to search for emails within
scope of your interest?

 

Please include "National [government]" and "100 day plan" as my search
references.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

William James

 

Important Notice: This is an e-mail from Te Pûkenga. Any opinions stated
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Pûkenga. We do not accept responsibility for any changes to this email or
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unauthorised use, distribution or copying of the contents is expressly
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return e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all
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Viruses:Te Pûkenga does not represent or warrant that this e-mail or files
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Kia ora William

 

Please see attached a notification of extension from Te Pûkenga regarding
your request for information dated 7 December 2023.

 

Ngâ mihi

Cat

 

Office of the Chief Executive

 

Level 2, Wintec House
Cnr Anglesea & Nisbet Streets
Hamilton 3204
— 
[1]tepûkenga.ac.nz  

 

Important Notice: This is an e-mail from Te Pûkenga. Any opinions stated
reflect those of the individual and not necessarily the view of Te
Pûkenga. We do not accept responsibility for any changes to this email or
its attachments made by others after we have transmitted it.

Unauthorised Use: The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments)
may be subject to copyright, legal privilege and/or be confidential. Any
unauthorised use, distribution or copying of the contents is expressly
prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise us by
return e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all
attachments.

Viruses:Te Pûkenga does not represent or warrant that this e-mail or files
attached to this e-mail are free from computer viruses or other defects.
Any attached files are provided, and may only be used, on the basis that
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Kia ora William

 

Please see attached Te Pûkenga response to your request for information
dated 7 December 2023.

 

Ngâ mihi

Cat

 

Office of the Chief Executive

 

Level 2, Wintec House
Cnr Anglesea & Nisbet Streets
Hamilton 3204
— 
[1]tepûkenga.ac.nz  

 

Important Notice: This is an e-mail from Te Pûkenga. Any opinions stated
reflect those of the individual and not necessarily the view of Te
Pûkenga. We do not accept responsibility for any changes to this email or
its attachments made by others after we have transmitted it.

Unauthorised Use: The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments)
may be subject to copyright, legal privilege and/or be confidential. Any
unauthorised use, distribution or copying of the contents is expressly
prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise us by
return e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all
attachments.

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