Adult and Community Education

• • Reporting requirements
  • Schools withdrawing from ACE in 2010

ACE in schools

Government ACE[1] funding will now be linked to the following national ACE priorities:

1. targeting learners whose initial learning was not successful
2. raising foundation skills
3. strengthening social cohesion.

Schools will ensure that funded ACE programmes will:

• deliver priority areas of provision including literacy, numeracy, ESOL[2], New Zealand Sign Language and te reo Māori
• target learners with the highest need, i.e. those whose initial learning was unsuccessful including Māori, Pacific peoples, migrants and refugees.

From 2010, schools are not required to allocate 9.5% of their total ACE allocation to community organisations (community allocation) or maintain an ACE advisory group to advise on the school’s ACE programme. Schools must however, maintain an appropriate and effective process for consulting with their communities as required by quality assurance requirements and the Investment Plan.

Resources for the development of school-based ACE and literacy and numeracy programmes:

• ACE Literacy and Numeracy in Secondary Schools presentation.
• More information on literacy and numeracy can be found on the Literacy Aotearoa website.

 

• [1]

  Adult and Community Education (ACE)

• [2]

  English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)