14/10/2024
ED Hirsche
[FYI request #28345 email]
Tēnā koe ED
OIA: 1335715 – information regarding teacher supply
Thank you for your clarified request of 18 September 2024 to the Ministry of Education requesting
the following information:
•
…all formal written advice from the Ministry to either Minister regarding:
a. teacher supply, staffing and availability. This should include, but certainly not be
limited to, any advice around ITE enrollment which are dropping catastrophically.
b. the implications of requiring ncea level 2 on teacher supply, staffing and availability.
•
To avoid doubt - please include ece in the above request
Your request has been considered under the Of icial Information Act 1982 (the Act).
The Ministry has identified eight documents comprising formal written advice within scope of your
request. Please see the document table below which sets out my decision on each paper. Four of
the reports are publicly available. Per section 18(d) of the Act links are provided to these
documents in the document table. The remaining four documents are withheld under section
9(2)(f)(iv) of the Act to maintain the constitutional conventions for the time being which protect the
confidentiality of advice tendered by Ministers of the Crown and officials.
One further document has been included in the table, which is beyond the scope of your request,
as it was sent to the Minister after we received your request. This document is also withheld under
section 9(2)(f)(iv) of the Act.
All of the withheld documents are in the Ministry’s proactive release cycle and wil be published,
when they are no longer under active consideration by Ministers, at the following link:
Advice seen by our Ministers – Education in New Zealand
As required under section 9(1) of the Act, I have considered the public interest in releasing the
information withheld under section 9(2)(f)(iv). I do not consider the public interest considerations
Wellington National Office, 1 The Terrace, Levels 5 to 14, Wellington 6011
PO Box 1666, Wel ington 6140, DX SR51201 Phone: +64 4 463 8000
favouring the release of this information are sufficient to outweigh the need to withhold it at this
time.
Please note that on 30 August 2024 information was published on the Ministry’s website regarding
the commencement of targeted stakeholder consultation on the proposal to lift and shift the
Teaching Council’s ITE functions (sections 479(1)(g-i)) to become functions of the Secretary for
Education. This information can be retrieved at the following link:
https:/ www.education.govt.nz/our-work/information-releases/issue-specific-releases/initial-teacher-
education/#sh-ITE
Thank you again for your email. You have the right to ask an Ombudsman to review my decision
on your request, in accordance with section 28 of the Act. You can do this by writing to
[email address] or to Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143.
Nāku noa, nā
Anna Welanyk
Hautū | Deputy Secretary
Te Pou Ohumahi Mātauranga | Education Workforce
OIA: 1335715
Document table
# Date
METIS # Title
Decision on release
1 17 April
1327108 Education Report:
Proactively released
2024
Teacher Supply
Budget 24 Bid –
Signed-ER-1327108-Teacher-Supply-
Approval of updated
Budget-bid-Approval-of-funding-and-
funding and
appropriation-split-update-v2.pdf
appropriation split
(education.govt.nz)
2 29 April
1325109 Education Report -
Proactively released
2024
Overseas and
domestic teacher
1325109-Overseas-and-domestic-teacher-
attraction End of
attraction-end-of-23_24-FY-media-publicity-
2023-24 financial year
plan.pdf (education.govt.nz)
media publicity plan
3 28 May
1327712 Briefing Note:
Proactively released
2024
Release of Data on
our Schooling
1327712-Release-ofdata-on-schooling-
Teacher Workforce
teacher-workforce-and-ITE.pdf
and Initial Teacher
(education.govt.nz)
Education
4 10 June
1329285
Briefing Note:
Proactively Released
2024
Attracting and
supporting teachers
1329285-Attracting-and-supporting-teachers-
back into the
back-into-the-profession-v2.pdf
profession
(education.govt.nz)
Some information has been withheld from
this briefing under section 9(2)(f)(iv) of the
Act
5 3 July
1331154 Education Report:
Withhold in full.
2024
School Onsite
Training Programme
Information has been withheld under section
Implementation
9(2)(f)(iv) of the Act.
Update
OIA: 1335715
# Date
METIS # Title
Decision on release
6 4 Sept
1332782 Education Report:
Withhold in full.
2024
Improving teacher
supply for Kaupapa
Information has been withheld under section
Māori and Māori
9(2)(f)(iv) of the Act.
medium education –
Employment Based
Initial Teacher
Education
7 4 Sept
1335372 Briefing Note:
Withhold in full.
2024
Background
information for the
Information has been withheld under section
meeting with NZEI
9(2)(f)(iv) of the Act.
President
8 6 Sept
1335373 Briefing Note:
Withhold in full.
2024
Background
information for the
Information has been withheld under section
meeting with PPTA
9(2)(f)(iv) of the Act.
President
9 27 Sept
1336771 Report: Advice about
Withhold in full.
2024
the Teaching Council
proposal to introduce Information has been withheld under section
a maths entry
9(2)(f)(iv) of the Act.
requirement for
primary Initial
Education
Programmes
OIA: 1335715
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