Wānanga

Big one today is a Wednesday.

It's Wānanga Wednesday today as well.

Yes, yes.

We're on

holiday at the moment, so no Wānanga for us.

We've got two weeks off.

Oh, hi,

Which is very cool.

Senior political reporter Azaria Hell has the story.

Of this, $1.25 billion went to universities, $440 million to Polytechs and other funding to training establishments and Wananga.

Penny Simmons says the evidence shows it did not meaningfully lift participation or improve equity.

The scheme's being scrapped at the end of the year.

The other really big one that we have been hearing from members across the board is the issue of insecure work.

where we now know around half of the people working in our universities, Wānanga and Polytechs, are not on secure contracts.

So they're working on fixed-term or casual contracts.

Sometimes for years at a time, a large portion of the workforce, in particular in the universities, are on these rolling fixed-term contracts that sometimes go four years.

Now we're not talking Masters degrees or PhDs.

We're saying whether that be a diploma, whether that be Wintec, the Wānanga, anything.

Anything that you give to yourself.

And what I've loved seeing, and I think that's something that people need to know too, is lived experience has actually got real value in the community, hasn't it? For sure,