News

February 2025

Flexible Adult Learning Provision: what it is, why it matters, and how to make it work

Wed, 2025-02-05 11:24

In August 2024, new unemployment figures showed that 33,000 more New Zealanders were jobless compared to the same time in 2023, bringing the total number of unemployed to 143,000. The unemployment rate reached a three-year high of 4.6% in the three months ended June 2024, up from 4.4% in the previous quarter. The figures also showed that people aged between 15 and 24 made up almost half of the newly unemployed, and many of them want more work but cannot get the hours.

Respect: Building Safer Communities Through Education and Support

Wed, 2025-02-12 11:53

Everyone has the right to live a life free from violence and abuse in all its forms. This principle lies at the heart of the work undertaken by Respect, a community organisation based in Takapuna, Auckland. Respect’s purpose is to facilitate respectful relationships, and the organisation achieves this by offering support and education programmes both for victims and perpetrators of violence, as well as children who are impacted by violence.

Southland Education: Adapting, Growing, and Thriving for Over 100 Years

Wed, 2025-02-19 12:04

Success over decades comes with the ability to reinvent yourself and meet everchanging and intergenerational needs, which is what Southland Education | Te Wāhi Ākoranga o Murihiku has consistently done throughout its long history.

“To be sustainable and achieve longevity you must reinvent yourself and increase your diversity,” says Lesley du Mez, Manager, Southland Education. “This means delivering what the community wants in a way that they want it.”

The Confidence of Quality Delivery

Wed, 2025-02-26 12:18

ACE providers operate from hundreds of locations across the motu. From small, isolated communities through to our larger cities and towns, we know there are people, groups and organisations delivering quality adult community education across a broad range of subjects.