Launched on April 1 last year, Te Pūkenga brings together New Zealand’s 16 Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs).
In July education minister Chris Hipkins set out his intentions for it, saying the Crown’s investment would total almost $121 million.
“This is a significant amount of funding and I have high expectations,” he wrote.
“(The organisation) needs to be nimble and a driver of change, and leverage off the extensive expertise that already exists within NZIST and other key stakeholders.”
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In total the organisation will pay its seven top staff at least $2.3 million in its first year.