Workplace literacy

Raising the literacy, language and numeracy skills of the workforce is a key government priority for tertiary education.

These skills provide the essential base for building a competitive, highly-skilled and productive workforce.

Improvements in literacy, language and numeracy skills contribute to many business benefits such as improved product quality, reduced waste, better workplace communications, improved health and safety, and progression to study for higher level skills. They also contribute to social benefits such as improved health, workforce and community participation. Inter-generational impacts include more active involvement by parents with higher literacy and numeracy levels in their children’s education.

The Workplace Literacy Fund is designed to strengthen employees' literacy and numeracy skills linked to workplace requirements. Employers can access workplace literacy funding through either:

1. one of the TEC approved TEOs who are listed on our website. Employers can approach a TEO directly;
2. Or larger employers (with programmes for more than 50 employees) can apply directly to the TEC for funding. Employers wishing to directly access Workplace Literacy funding must submit an application to the TEC quarterly funding rounds. The closing date for the next quarterly round can be found on the Workplace Literacy Fund page.

Read more about the process.

Other useful resources can be found online at:

www.literacyandnumeracyforadults.com;

and www.skillshighway.govt.nz