The Government's consulting on a new model to replace Te Pukenga.  

The mega-polytech has been running at a large deficit and enrolments have declined.  

They’re proposing institutes with a pathway to financial sustainability that will stand alone while others will be grouped together in a federation, supported by Open Polytechnic.  

Tertiary Education and Skills Minister Penny Simmonds told Mike Hosking a lot of what they're looking at is advice the previous minister was given.  

She says that was not to go wholesale into a big change, but to address problem areas, and let the others get on with running their polytechnics. 

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