News

News

Latest announcements, updates, and stories from CreaTer and across New Zealand’s creative sector

  • 02/09/2025
    RNZ: University advisory group calls for tougher entry requirements
  • 02/09/2025
    Ministry of Education: 2025 Government priorities for the universities portfolio
  • 28/08/2025
    The Big Idea: Amplify Announced – NZ’s Creative & Cultural Sector Strategy Confirmed
  • 26/08/2025
    The Conversation: Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer
  • 21/08/2025
    Toi Mai: New tax micro-credential to upskill Pacific creatives
  • 21/08/2025
    RNZ: Te Wānanga o Aotearoa announces ‘redesign’ that will see around 60 roles cut
  • 21/08/2025
    NZ Herald: 40-plus jobs to go at EIT Eastern Institute of Technology in restructure
  • 16/08/2025
    The Post: Te Auaha’s demise, and the retreat of creative education
  • 15/08/2025
    TEC: 2026 tertiary fee regulation settings confirmed
  • 15/08/2025
    NZ Herald: Toi-Ohomai South Waikato closure: Taskforce to explore education solutions
  • 13/08/2025
    NZ Herald: Government warned of risks with polytech merger break-up: ‘Similar, if not worse’ financials
  • 06/08/2025
    The Conversation: Big changes to NCEA and polytechs must deliver the skills NZ urgently needs
  • 06/08/2025
    RNZ: Trades Academy teaching hard-to-reach students in Ōpōtiki
  • 05/08/2025
    Toi Mai: Latest update on the VET reforms: Establishment Advisory Group members named
  • 05/08/2025
    RNZ: Government has ‘no intention whatsoever’ to close NorthTec, Northland MP promises
  • 31/07/2025
    RNZ: Australia wipes AU$16 billion off student loans, targeting cost of living relief
  • 29/07/2025
    Q+A with Jack Tame: Study in New Zealand: Vocational education’s viability questioned | Q+A 2025
  • 29/07/2025
    Te Pūkenga 2024 Te Pūrongo ā-Tau Annual Report
  • 29/07/2025
    The Northern Advocate: NorthTec staff fear more cuts amid Te Pūkenga disestablishment
  • 24/07/2025
    TheSpinoff: Why the New Zealand book industry is ‘freaking out’…
  • 23/07/2025
    Stuff: The bill taxpayers could get for closing Te Pūkenga…
  • 19/07/2025
    The Post: Can a creative capital survive without creatives? Arts cuts gut Te Auaha
  • 18/07/2025
    Te Karere TVNZ: Coalition government moves to disestablish Te Pūkenga
  • 15/07/2025
    NZ Herald: Chris Hipkins on Government scrapping Te Pūkenga and the improvement in NCEA results