Private training establishments

PTEs[1] are operated by a wide range of companies, trusts and other entities, and offer post-school education or vocational training.

They are diverse in terms of their scale of operation, location, ethnicity, culture and areas of educational expertise. Because of this they respond to the broad range of needs of the learner, the industry, the employers, communities as well as Māori and Pacific peoples and other stakeholders.

From 2011 the PTE sector includes TEOs formerly known as OTEPs - those TEOs that at one point received funding under section 321 of the Education Act 1989.

The types of funding accessed by PTEs include:

• ACE[2] and ACE networks
• ESOL[3]
• specialist services for disadvantaged groups
• intensive literacy and numeracy provision
• SAC[4]
• PBRF[5]
• Training Opportunities
• Youth Training
• Youth Guarantee
• workplace literacy, and
• Modern Apprenticeship Co-ordination.

NZAPEP and Independent Tertiary Institutions–Nga Wānanga Motuhake represent many of the country’s PTEs.

This website provides information for PTEs.

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  Private training establishments (PTEs)

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  Adult and Community Education (ACE)

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  English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)

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  Student Achievement Component fund (SAC)

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  Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF)