Gateway

Who applies? Schools	Fund focus: Learning focus, Workplace training, Learner focus, Domestic students, Youth
Status: Ongoing	Agreed through? Investment Plan (on Plan)

The Gateway programme strengthens pathways for students from school to further education and training or employment. Senior secondary students (Year 11 to Year 13+) in the Gateway programme undertake structured workplace learning across a range of industries and businesses around New Zealand, while continuing to study at school. All state and Integrated secondary schools are eligible to apply for Gateway.

Gateway delivery involves arranging structured workplace learning with the following characteristics:

• a formalised learning arrangement set in the workplace
• clear understandings about the knowledge and skills to be attained by learners
• clear understandings about the assessment method used (workplace learning).

There is no cost to learners. Schools must comply with the requirements of Condition GAT017[1] which specifies the learning environment, health and safety requirements, and the information needs of learners and stakeholders.

Gateway funding is agreed through the Investment Plan. Delivery of the Plan is monitored by us.

Any TEO[2] that receives funding must abide by a number of rules and conditions.

 

Access to Gateway funding will be considered in accordance with government policy, (as directed by the Minister’s determination under section 159L of the Education Act 1989), the current Tertiary Education Strategy, and in response to performance.

Read the Gateway handbook for more information about Gateway funding.

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  Condition GAT017: Gateway delivery requirements

  Schools receiving Gateway funding must do all of the following:

  • Develop individual learning plans for funded learners
  • Enter into a written agreement with each employer providing workplace learning, recording the objectives and the duration of any placement before the placement commences
  • Ensure that each learner is provided with any tools, equipment, safety clothing and tuition materials that may be required for the training, at no cost to the learner
  • Manage workplace learning arranged by the school, including assessment and recognition of that learning, in a way that provides each participating learner with the opportunity to achieve unit and/or achievement standards
  • Satisfy itself that the workplace environment is safe and appropriate for structured workplace learning and ensure that the welfare and interests of participating learners are protected
  • Satisfy itself that each employer providing structured workplace learning is aware of, and can comply with, the employer’s obligations under the Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Act 2002, the Human Rights Act 1993 and any other statute, regulation and bylaw that may be relevant to the delivery of the workplace learning to learners
  • Integrate workplace learning with the broader school curriculum requirements for each participating learner
  • Ensure that each participating learner is aware of the relevant employer's requirements that the learner is expected to comply with, before the learner commences workplace learning
  • Use the funding solely for the purpose of supplying the activities specified and approved for funding in the school's Investment Plan
  • Comply with the administrative requirements detailed in the Gateway handbook provided by the TEC
  • Provide a learning environment that is responsive and flexible to meet the physical, cultural and learning needs of learners
  • Ensure that learners and other stakeholders are fully informed of all of the following:
    • The school's Gateway programme activities
    • The school's disciplinary and complaints procedures
    • The school's policies relating to holding learners’ personal information, and learners’ rights to review this information.
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  Tertiary education organisation (TEO)