Funding – Accelerating Learner Success Fund (Tūwhitia)
Funding – Accelerating Learner Success Fund (Tūwhitia)
This page provides information about Accelerating Learner Success Fund (Tūwhitia) funding.
This page provides information about Accelerating Learner Success Fund (Tūwhitia) funding.
The Accelerating Learner Success Fund (Tūwhitia) had up to $5 million available for the 2023/24 financial year, and has up to $10 million in each subsequent year to support the acceleration of existing learner success initiatives.
How much can be applied for?
There are no minimum or maximum caps on the value of your applications within the $10 million that is available for the 2024/25 financial year, or the $10 million in subsequent financial years. However, we expect that the Fund will support a number of initiatives.
Proposals can be across multiple years.
Please note that we may seek to only partially fund an initiative. If this happens, we will contact you to discuss what this may look like. Alternatively, we may engage with you if we consider that an initiative is particularly promising and could warrant additional funding.
Co-investment is required
To receive funding tertiary education organisations (TEOs) must co-invest in the learner success initiatives.
What can the funding be used for?
When developing the budget for your proposal, please note that the use of funding could include such things as:
- personnel costs
- purchase of software required to support the initiative (the funding cannot be predominantly used to purchase software), or
- resource development and publishing costs.
You cannot use funding for:
- any purpose other than the stated initiative (it must be ring-fenced within your accounts), or
- subsidising or addressing business-as-usual delivery.
TEOs will be required to share information
TEOs that receive funding under this Fund will be required to publish and share information about their initiatives. This may include progress updates and outputs that could be implemented and scaled up in other TEOs.
Agreement between TEOs and the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) on information sharing will be included in the full application form and confirmed through contract negotiations for successful applicants.