Today the Minister for Vocational Education Hon Penny Simmons announced the future transition arrangements for workplace learning out of Te Pūkenga.

The Minister’s announcement can be found here.  There is also further information on the TEC website.

Key points 

• New Industry Skills Boards (ISBs) will be set up to set training standards, endorse programmes and moderate assessments, as well as provide workforce analysis for their sectors, and provide investment advice to the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC).
• Te Pūkenga Workplace Learning divisions (the ex-ITOs), will become subsidiaries of the new Industry Skills Boards (ISBs) on 1 January 2026.
• They will remain so until new arrangements for workplace learning are in place. This expected to take up to two years.
• The Minister also indicated that consultation on the number and coverage of ISBs will begin shortly.

 

TEC are holding information webinars on Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 April, and we encourage industry to attend. The webinars will provide more detail on what this announcement means for the future of work-based training.

Register for webinars:

Monday 28 April 5pm 

Tuesday 29 April 11am

 

There are many details still to be determined over the rest of the year, and we will continue to keep you informed to the extent that this is possible as the process develops.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out – we can be contacted at [email protected], or reply to this email.