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

Please provide the following information:

All drafts and versions of documents eventually made available to staff relating to RIV Change proposals, Phases 1 through 3, dated 1 October 2024 to 27 May 2025.

All email correspondence, meeting notes, draft documents and recollections relating to RIV changes to or from the Whitireia and WelTec Director Teaching and Learning between 1 Jan 2024 and 27 May 2025.

All email correspondence, meeting notes, draft documents and recollections relating to RIV changes to or from the CEO Whitireia and WelTec between 1 Jan 2024 and 27 May 2025.

Answers via good faith summary and actual data to the following:

Q1. What are the key responsibilities of the Director of Teaching and Learning for Whitireia & WelTec?

Q2. How many events (shows, exhibitions, gigs, workshops, lectures) presented by School of Creativity akōnga has the current Whitireia & WelTec Director of Teaching & Learning attended during her time in the role?

Q3. Who was the Director of Teaching and Learning (or equivalent position) for Whitireia & WelTec between 2016 and 2018, when the financial and risk-related consequences of building and maintaining a creative campus in the CBD were being assessed?
Which staff (name and role) from Whitireia and/or WelTec were present for those discussions?
Which staff (name and role) from Whitireia and/or WelTec were responsible for the final decisions on the above?

Q4. Who was the Director of Teaching and Learning (or equivalent position) for Whitireia & WelTec in 2018 when Te Kahui Auaha opened to about 600 students, 400 fewer than was originally projected? What efforts were made to build student numbers up to the 1000 target?

Q5. Who was the Director of Teaching and Learning (or equivalent position) for Whitireia & WelTec in 2019 when the journalism, radio, jewelry and circus courses were cut from the School of Creativity portfolio?

Q6. Who was the Director of Teaching and Learning (or equivalent position) for Whitireia & WelTec when it was decided that the School of Creativity would become the School of Creativity & Hospitality? What benefits were expected from joining the two portfolios? What actions were taken to maximise the enrolment into and reputation of these courses?

Q7. Who was the Director of Teaching and Learning for Whitireia & WelTec in 2020, when the effects of the COVID 19 pandemic were confirmed to be exactly the kind of ‘major impact’ event discussed in 2018, before Te Kahui Auaha was built?
What action was taken to minimise the damage to programme viability? What preparations were made to enable the organisation to make up as much lost ground as possible once restrictions eased? And what was actually done over 2021-2025 to retain existing students, increase enrolment of new students and grow the visibility and reputation of the creative programmes in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Q8. Who was the Director of Teaching and Learning for Whitireia & WelTec in 2022, when it was decided that the Whitireia Music course would be taught out?

Q9. Who was the Director of Teaching and Learning for Whitireia & WelTec in 2024, when it was decided that the Māori & Pacific Dance course would be taught out?

Q10. Which staff (name and role) from Whitireia and WelTec are involved in assessing feedback and submissions relating to the RIV phases 1 through 3 change proposals?
Which staff (name and role) from Whitireia and WelTec are responsible for the final decisions?

Yours faithfully,
Eleanor Alice