National Government has delivered for New Zealand. Members, the
question is that vote business
science and Innovation, vote Labour
science and Innovation, vote Labour
market and Vote Transport stand part
Members, we now move to the votes in the education sector. The question
is that Vote Education, Vodafone
is that Vote Education, Vodafone
Education Review Office
and Vote Tertiary Education stand part
of the
Government has been relentlessly on Government has been relentlessly on
delivering better public service and
to enhance students par tit
pation and achievement has been one of
the key
and achievement has been one of the
has been a key priority. We are making every effort to ensure that
our education system can cater
to the need of our children. We
have continuously increased the funding
education and also we have
seen continuous increases in
our students achieving better or higher
qualifications.
achieving better or higher qualifications. Budget 2017 has
delivered the largest new injection
education since the Government took office in 2008 with an additional
funding over the next four years. So this brings our total funding for
education
this brings our total funding for
billion, which is a new record. More specifically, the EC providers will
receive an additional
specifically, the EC providers will
over the next four years and this investment will enable us to create
31,000 new places for early
learning and this means that
more children will be able to get better
education
first time, for the very first time, targeted funding to support children
at risk of not achieving is being
extended to early learning
with
early child education. The early childhood education is particularly
important for us because early
childhood years are vital to
childrens'
childrens' future development and for their ability to learn
in the future. So this Government
intends to provide the strongest
start for our children in their early life to
as many children as possible. So
this is very important because we
believe that it is important to give
our children the strongest start in
life so that they will be able to
succeed in the future. So our
children are now starting
schools better prepared to learn and leaving
schools better educated, qualified,
and better prepared for work or for
higher education. Mr Chair,
education is always
closely related to the economy. This is
because education or better
educated education or better educated
workforces are crucial to a
growing economy. Also in New
Zealand's case, education is a
very important export industry. As a matter of fact,
international education is the
fourth largest export industry in
New Zealand contributing
billion each year with 30,000 jobs. So this Budget will give
billion each year with 30,000 jobs.
international education, additional
Education NZ to make sure that Education NZ can
support and strengthen the ability
Education NZ can support and Education
Education NZ can support and international education. We
will also look at international education
from a different perspective. It
is not just in dollar terms but
also because all international students,
once they return to their home
countries, they
countries, they can be ambassadors for New Zealand. So that is not
just calculated in terms of dollars
but also in terms of reputation and the
also in terms of reputation and the
image of
image of New Zealand internationally. It
internationally. It is very important for us to continue
to focus on and invest in international
focus on and invest in international
education. Mr Chair,
I will emphasise this Government also wants
to modernise our education system
and also the content of our
and also the content of our
education. For
education. For that reason, recently, this Government made an
announcement that it is to make
a announcement that it is to make a
big change to our school curriculum
in ten years and that change is to
make sure that all young New
make sure that all young New
Zealanders are digitally Flew went.
That is
Zealanders are digitally Flew went.
because in today's world if you are not digitally Fluant you
will not be able to compete. It is competitive
not
able to compete. It is competitive and digital global world. Tracey
Martin. New Zealand first won't
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supporting the estimates. Inside
integrated school property. That is private property owned
by other private property owned by other