Adult and Community Education

ACE in schools

ACE provision in schools must align to all three TEC-funded ACE priorities.

In addition, schools will ensure that funded ACE programmes will:

• deliver priority areas of provision including literacy, numeracy, English language (including ESOL[1]), New Zealand Sign Language and te reo Māori
• target learners with the highest need, those whose initial learning was unsuccessful including Māori, Pacific peoples, migrants and refugees.

The funding rate for school-based ACE in 2011 is $116.28 (GST exclusive) per learner place to complete a minimum of 16 hours of ACE learning per school term.

In accordance with Rule ACE006[2] a school may make ACE funding available for use by local community organisations or partner schools that do not receive TEC funding. However, the school remains accountable for the use of and performance for any ACE funding provided to these organisations.

ACE delivered by schools must not include day school student classes in compliance with Rule ACE003[3].

The following resources are available for the development of literacy and numeracy programmes in school-based ACE:

• ACE Literacy and Numeracy in Secondary Schools presentation (PPT, 2.5 MB).
• More information on literacy and numeracy can be found on the Literacy Aotearoa website.
• Practice information is also available through ACE Aotearoa and Ako Aotearoa.  

Reporting requirements

Schools will need to submit a final report on performance after each calendar year. This report will include the following information:

• Number of learner places (contracted and delivered)
• English language status of learners
• Ethnicity of learners
• Gender of learners
• Age of learners
• Highest successfully completed qualification level of learners
• Regions of delivery
• Information on subcontracted delivery
• Declaration that states whether the performance indicators have been met.

This report will be for the reporting period 1 January – 31 December 2011, and is due at our Service Centre within 15 working days of the completion of the 2011 ACE programme.

• School ACE final report 2011 (Word, 77 Kb)

In addition, schools will need to ensure that individual learner data is collected. This information may be audited by us. An example of the type of information that is required by us has been included to assist schools with their data collection and reporting.

• Learner data exemplar (PDF, 18 Kb)

Performance

There are mandatory performance indicators for schools. ACE delivered by schools will be measured against the following:

• Course completion rates: A minimum of 80 percent of learners involved in TEC-funded ACE provision complete their course of study
• Prior qualification levels or learner ethnicity: Over the entire ACE programme delivered by a school, there will be a minimum of 50 percent of learners who either:
• identify as having English language needs; and/or
• have low or no formal qualifications; and/or
• identify as Māori or Pacific. 

• [1]

  English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)

• [2]

  Rule ACE006: ACE in schools allocation to community organisations and other schools

  Schools may make Adult and Community Education (ACE) funding available for use by community organisations and other schools in their region that do not receive TEC funding. The funding may only be used to deliver ACE provision or to organise ACE activities. Schools must notify the TEC of any proposal for making ACE funding avaliable to another organisation.

  The school must not require any organisation to pay any fee for the administration of the allocation made available to them. 

  The school's Board of Trustees remains accountable for:

  • the use of the ACE funding made available to another organisation
  • the quality assurance standards of the organisation to which funding has been made available
  • performance of ACE provision at the organisation to which funding has been made available.
• [3]

  Rule ACE003: ACE exclusion of day school classes

  A class of day school students, delivered by schools, private training establishments, rural education activities programmes, or community providers, may not be re-organised as an ACE course even if it is taken outside usual day school hours.