Vote Tertiary Education - Supplementary Estimates 2012/13

Details of Appropriations#

Details of Annual and Permanent Appropriations#

Information Supporting the Supplementary Estimates Vote Tertiary Education#

MINISTER(S) RESPONSIBLE FOR APPROPRIATIONS: Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment (M14)

ADMINISTERING DEPARTMENT: Ministry of Education

MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR MINISTRY OF EDUCATION : Minister of Education

Part 1 - Summary of the Vote#

Part 1.3 - Trends in the Vote

Summary of Financial Activity

Part 2 - Details and Expected Performance for Output Expenses#

Part 2.1 - Departmental Output Expenses

Strategic Leadership in the Tertiary System (M14)

Scope of Appropriation

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $263,000 to $7.863 million owing to provision for a settlement with Aotearoa Institute over a Treaty of Waitangi Tribunal claim ($263,000 increase).

Part 2.2 - Non-Departmental Output Expenses

Adult and Community Education (M14)

Scope of Appropriation

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $575,000 to $58.792 million for 2012/13. The increase is mainly owing to a transfer from non-departmental output expense Tertiary Education: Student Achievement Component to allow more flexibility in Search and Rescue training arrangements ($650,000 increase).

International Education Programmes (M14)

Scope of Appropriation

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $4 million to $25.622 million for 2012/13 as a result of a transfer of unspent funds from 2011/12.

Managing the Government's Investment in the Tertiary Education Sector (M14)

Scope of Appropriation

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $570,000 to $33.882 million for 2012/13. The increase is mainly owing to a transfer from Vote Employment for the Skills Highway Programme to consolidate information services for employers on literacy and numeracy programmes and to provide for more industry engagement with the Tertiary Education Commission on investment decisions in this area.

Tertiary Education Grants and Other Funding (M14)

Scope of Appropriation

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation decreased by $4.243 million to $30.127 million for 2012/13. The decrease is mainly owing to a combination of:

• transfer to the new appropriation non-departmental output expense Secondary-Tertiary Interface in Vote Education to implement a single cash-based resourcing model for secondary-tertiary programmes that will better enable funding to follow learners ($5.225 million decrease)
• applying further unallocated industry training funding to other tertiary education programmes, including provision for increased equity loading for 2013 ($500,000 increase), and
• additional funding to support the He Toki ki te Rika 2.0, a Maori trades training initiative in Canterbury ($482,000 increase).

Tertiary Education: Student Achievement Component (M14)

Scope of Appropriation

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation increased by $19.353 million to $2,041.260 million in 2012/13. The increase is mainly owing to:

• additional Pasifika Trades Training Initiative places and Priority Trades equivalent full-time students at Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics and private training establishments ($7.423 million increase)
• additional funding for Lincoln University for 2012 - 2014 and additional medical training places in 2013 ($6.480 million increase), and
• carrying forward surplus funding from 2011/12 ($6.100 million increase).

Training for Designated Groups (M14)

Scope of Appropriation

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation decreased by $31.491 million to $292.106 million in 2012/13. The decrease is mainly owing to a combination of:

• reprioritising industry training funding toward increased student support costs, changing the delivery tolerance bands for provision of tertiary education from 99 percent to 105 percent, and delivery of an additional 1,000 equivalent full-time students at highly performing private training establishments, above funded levels ($16.703 million decrease)
• applying further unallocated industry training funding to other tertiary education programmes, including provision for increased equity loading for 2013, additional student achievement component allocations at Lincoln University for 2012 - 2014 and additional medical places for 2013 ($16.298 million decrease), and
• a 're-boot' initiative to raise the profile and participation in the new apprenticeship system incentives to employers for the first 10,000 apprentices to enrol ($1.600 million increase).

Part 3 - Details for Benefits and Other Unrequited Expenses#

Part 3.2 - Non-Departmental Benefits and Other Unrequited Expenses

Apprenticeships Re-boot (M14)

Scope of Appropriation

Expenses

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This new appropriation in 2012/13 of $1.600 million was established through a 're-boot' initiative to raise the profile and participation in the new apprenticeship system by providing grants for the cost of equipment and tools for the first 10,000 apprentices to enrol.

Conditions on Use of Appropriation

Tertiary Scholarships and Awards (M14)

Scope of Appropriation

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation decreased by $534,000 to $12.795 million for 2012/13. The decrease is owing to a combination of:

• no claims received for Science and Mathematics Scholarships and School Achiever Awards ($750,000 decrease), and
• application of unallocated industry training funding to additional medical places in 2013 ($216,000 increase).

Part 5 - Details and Expected Results for Other Expenses#

Part 5.2 - Non-Departmental Other Expenses

Tertiary Education Institutions Merger Support (M14)

Scope of Appropriation

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This appropriation decreased by $500,000 to $1 million for 2012/13. The decrease is owing to a transfer of funding to 2013/14 as the merger between Tairawhiti Polytechnic and the Eastern Institute of Technology will take until 2013 to fully implement ($500,000 decrease).

Part 6 - Details and Expected Results for Capital Expenditure#

Part 6.2 - Non-Departmental Capital Expenditure

Intended Impacts, Outcomes and Objectives

Note 1 - For further information on the intended impacts, outcomes and objectives of the non-departmental capital expenditure appropriations, please see theStatement of Intent for the Tertiary Education Commission.

Literacy and Numeracy Assessment Tool (M14)

Scope of Appropriation

Capital Expenditure

Reasons for Change in Appropriation

This new appropriation of $250,000 was established during 2012/13 for developing a youth option in the Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool.

Reporting Mechanisms

The above table indicates the mechanisms to be used for reporting actual results for each non-departmental capital expenditure appropriation.