| Who applies?
Employers, ITOs, ITPs, PTEs, REAPs, Schools, Universities, Wānanga
| Fund focus:
Learning focus, Literacy Language and Numeracy, Workplace training, Learner focus, Domestic students, Pacific students, Migrants, Refugees, Maori, Adults
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| Status:
Ongoing
| Agreed through?
Investment Plan (on Plan)
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The Workplace Literacy fund is an on-Plan fund and is agreed through the Investment Plan process.
However, employers receiving this funding will continue to be exempt from the requirement to submit a proposed Investment Plan.
The Workplace Literacy fund provides support for employees to increase their literacy, language and numeracy skills linked to workplace requirements.
The Workplace Literacy fund provides for:
- TEO-led programmes. Any TEO that receives funding must abide by a number of rules and conditions. Funding is agreed through the Investment Plan process for TEOs.
- employee-targeted programmes that are flexible and targeted to individual employees.
- employer-led programmes. Employers are exempt from the requirement to submit a proposed Investment Plan. Funding for employers will be allocated through a funding agreement, and the delivery of activities monitored by TEC.
Initiatives funded through Workplace Literacy should support high-quality learning that is tailored to the needs of the workplace and other industry training, demonstrate a partnership approach and be innovative.
Providers must use a formal assessment process (undertaking initial and progress assessments) to identify learners’ literacy, language and or numeracy gains against the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions using either the Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool or Starting Points Assessment Guide (PDF, 1 Mb). Further information on the Assessment Tool can be found on the Reporting/Monitoring section of this website, in the How to use guide, or the National Centre of Literacy and Numeracy for Adults.
All Workplace Literacy funding for 2012 has now been allocated.
Access to Workplace Literacy funding is considered in accordance with government policy, (as directed by the Minister’s determination under section 159L of the Education Act 1989), the Tertiary Education Strategy and in response to performance.