Briefing to incoming Minister of Education

The Minister of Education has released the ministry’s briefing paper to her, and it is available on the parliamentary website, along with the Minister’s media release and briefing papers from other education agencies.

The briefing paper sets out the ministry’s advice to the Minister on key education policy challenges. For an overview, please read the executive summary.

The briefing paper discusses the following policy choices and challenges:

• Improving access to early childhood education
• Enhancing the performance of the school system
• Delivering high-quality Māori language education
• Balancing quality and participation in tertiary education
• Improving engagement, participation and learning for children with special education needs
• Making better use of available resources.

Social Outcomes

The Social Outcomes briefing to the incoming Minister presents an analysis of issues across the whole social sector, and was produced by the Ministry of Social Development on behalf of the Social Sector Forum of the Chief Executives of the Ministries of Health, Education, Social Development and Justice.

The Social Outcomes briefing paper is available on the Ministry of Social Development website.