ITI Articles

ITI has released its vision for tertiary education and education policy for 2008.

ITI’s Vision for Tertiary Education
 
The ideal tertiary education system would be focused on the following principles to ensure that quality, value, diversity and access is delivered to all learners:
 
- Student-centred
- Quality and relevance
- Complementary provision
- Outcomes not ownership.
 
An education system based on these principles would raise the aspirations, experience and opportunities for all students.  Most importantly, it would deliver real results.
 
Education Policy for the 2008 Election and Beyond
 
ITI seeks a new policy framework which will break the fiscal and policy vice which is currently stifling much of the traditional innovation, flexibility and responsiveness in the private education sector.  We hope that political parties will commit to:
 
- a significant, on-going funding boost to support the delivery of private tertiary education in targeted areas of Government priority and skill shortages.
- a review of the 103% over-provision policy in the private sector with a view to developing a sustainable funding pathway in the future
- moving towards a more level policy field including a review of the exclusion of PTEs from equity funding, disability funding and exemptions from fee maxima under exceptional circumstances
- an independent, Government-funded benchmarking of PTE effectiveness similar to the exercise currently underway for ITPs.