Government Budget Announcment
26 May 2008
NZSTA Fact Sheet
Summary Table of Budget 2008 for Schools
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2009 School Staffing Improvements for New Entrants
Operating funding excluding capital charge
2009/10 $52.663m
2010/11 $53.608m
2011/12 $53.796m
Four Year Total $182.032
Capital funding
2009/10 $7.702m
2010/11 $16.681m
2011/12 $6.791m
Four Year Total $33.509m |
It provides an estimated extra 762 teachers (full-time teacher equivalents - FTTEs) from 2009, and is over and above any extra teachers required to meet roll growth. The funding is for extra teachers, school learning spaces, furniture and equipment and laptops for teachers. It also adds more assessment tools to the electronic Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning (e-asTTle) library.
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Annual Adjustment to Schools' Operational Funding
Operating funding
2009/10 $49.132m
2010/11 $48.928m
2011/12 $49.006m
Four Year Total $171.580m |
This provides for a 5% increase to schools' operational funding effective from 1 January 2009, and includes a component to assist schools with the costs of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). The increase is above the projected Consumer Price Index shift of approximately 3.1% in 2008.
The government's total investment in schools' operational funding is $4.7 billion over the next four years. |
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Laptops for Teachers
Operating funding
2009/10 -
2010/11 -
2011/12 -
Four Year Total $2.250m |
Additional funding for the Laptops for Teachers scheme allows for further expansion to an already successful scheme.
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Non-Enrolled Truancy Service Capacity Increase
Operating funding
2009/10 -
2010/11 -
2011/12 -
Four Year Total $3.340m |
This funding increases the capacity of the Non-Enrolled Truancy Service (NETS) to find non-enrolled students and support them to return to school. It provides extra support while ENROL beds down and the number of non-enrolled students stabilises. |
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Literacy and Numeracy in Secondary Schools
Operating funding
2009/10 $4.462m
2010/11 $3.150m
2011/12 $0.756m
Four Year Total $10.436m |
This initiative will fund delivery of Literacy and Numeracy professional development programmes to a further 30 secondary schools, with a focus on teachers of students in Years Nine and Ten. |
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Full-time Moderators for the NCEA Operating funding
- 2008/09 $2.720m
- 2009/10 -
- 2010/11 -
- 2011/12 -
Four Year Total $2.720m |
Budget 2008 provides funding for full-time moderators hired by NZQA to moderate internal assessments of NCEA. Increased moderation will improve the credibility and quality of internal assessment for the NCEA.
The amount of internally assessed student work moderated will increase to 10% from 2008. Previously 81,740 samples (3% of internally assessed standards gaining credit) were moderated. Now up to 240,000 samples will be moderated each year.
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Property |
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School Property Business Case 2008/09
Operating funding excluding capital charge
- 2008/09 $5.517m
- 2009/10 $5.444m
- 2010/11 $4.765m
- 2011/12 $5.094m
Four Year Total $20.820m
Capital funding
- 2008/09 $71.000m
- 2009/10 $2.790m
- 2010/11 $0.940m
- 2011/12 -
Four Year Total $74.730m |
The additional funding allows for completing the construction of nine new schools announced in 2007/08, construction to start on two new schools, 130 new classrooms (plus five gyms) and modernising existing school property, and an increase in the capacity of the school network (from a property perspective) to accommodate extra students from net migration and population growth areas.
The focus for 2008/09 is on completing property work already approved. Significant investment (over $2.5 billion) over the past seven years has created an opportunity for schools to prioritise and plan work on school buildings. The government now wants to ensure this work is completed.
The state (non-integrated) school sector property portfolio has a capital value of $9.7 billion at 30 June 2007, including $6.3 billion worth of improvements. The total replacement value of the portfolio is approximately $12.5 billion. |
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Funding for Property at Integrated Schools
Operating funding
2009/10 -
2010/11 -
2011/12 -
Four Year Total $13.064m |
The government recognises that in some areas a new integrated school may provide school spaces which would otherwise have required the building of a state school, and that this accommodation provides offsetting savings to the Crown.
Under agreed policies, the proprietor of state- integrated Aquinas College in Tauranga, the Bishop of the Diocese of Hamilton, will receive 85% of the costs of building a state school of the equivalent size in 2008/09.
The funding is a one-off allocation for building costs only. Ongoing costs associated with property fall under integrated schools' agreements with government. |
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Extra Therapy Support for Some High Needs Students
Operating funding
- 2008/09 $1.243m
- 2009/10 $1.243m
- 2010/11 -
- 2011/12 -
Four Year Total $2.486m |
Government is putting in place funding for the 2009 school year to maintain levels of learning support for students with physical disabilities by ensuring current staffing levels continue. The existing level of therapy support in the relevant schools will not be reduced. |
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Increasing Staffing in the Vision Education Sector
Operating funding
2009/10 $1.648m
2010/11 $1.648m
2011/12 $1.648m
Four Year Total $6.125m |
This initiative provides funding for an extra 15 specialist staff to support blind and vision impaired students at schools, increasing the pool of specialist staff to 50. |
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Cost Increases for Non-GSE Providers
Operating funding
2009/10 $3.682m
2010/11 $3.682m
2011/12 $3.682m
Four Year Total $14.194m |
This initiative provides an inflation adjustment for non-Ministry of Education special education providers supporting students through the Ongoing and Reviewable Resourcing Schemes. |
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Ongoing and Reviewable Resourcing Schemes Baseline Adjustment
Operating funding
2009/10 $4.743m
2010/11 $4.157m
2011/12 $4.157m
Four Year Total $18.386m |
This initiative, which is demand-driven, increases the number of students provided for by the Ongoing and Reviewable Resourcing Schemes (ORRS) from 6,700 students in 2007/08 to 6,950 students in 2008/09.
The extra funding is intended to ensure that all children who meet the criteria for ORRS can be supported. |
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School High Health Needs Fund Baseline Update
Operating funding
- 2008/09 $2.671m
- 2009/10 -
- 2010/11 -
- 2011/12 -
Four Year Total $2.671m |
An extra 250 children will be able to access support from the School High Health Needs Fund.
The Fund provides teacher aide support for students with high health needs to ensure students are able to fully participate in education. |
Change of guard at Education Services
12 May 2008
Managing director, Wayne Costello is to semi retire later next month from the company he partly founded 19 years ago.
In his 40th year in education administration of which 25 years has been at the helm ( nearly 6 1/2 years as General Manager , Wanganui Education Board ), it is timely to step aside Wayne says to allow very capable and younger leaders within the company to manage and grow the business as it enters this new era. |
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Wayne is excited for the company and its staff, for whom he is confident, will prosper under the guidance and leadership of Pete McBreen, who becomes General Manager after serving nearly 14 years as Regional Manager for the company’s New Plymouth office. Pete is also a director and owner of the business and he will discharge his new responsibilities from the company’s New Plymouth office.
Karyn Brett succeeds Pete as Regional Manager New Plymouth. Karyn’s appointment is especially satisfying as she becomes the company’s first female to attain a Regional Manager post. Karyn has been with the company for nearly 10 years and she has long been regarded as a future leader in the business.
Brett Smith, who also partly founded the business will become Regional Manager Wanganui Office. Brett too is an owner and director of the company.
Education Services Ltd continues to grow its accounting service client base to North Island schools. From a first year base of 78 schools to 500 in 2008, 19 years later. Costello says the company is very grateful for the wonderful support it continues to enjoy in its professional relationships with the education community. The strength of that partnership is well illustrated through the evolution of the business which has influenced the investment in offices in Lower Hutt, New Plymouth, Rotorua, Whangarei, and of course Wanganui where the journey began in 1989.
Property management also continues to be an important and successful arm of the Wanganui office and Wayne’s reduced role which will have an emphasis around marketing the accounting business throughout New Zealand will also include assisting opportunities to further resource and grow the property function.
Client Survey
20 October 2006
We wish to say a very big thank you to clients for taking the time to help us to be "the best that we can be".
We did grapple with the issue around loading you with "yet another business survey" but we concluded that what we were looking to achieve was important in both our interests so we pressed the go button. We are pleased we did.
While the completion date set was 25 August we continue to receive survey information and current indications are that the response rate will exceed 60% which is very heartening...in fact it is fantastic!
The various finance teams look forward to the analysis phase and the opportunity to improve the service quality and detail of what we do.
The lucky winners of a beautiful basket of goodies drawn by lot were:
Northland .....Lower Hutt office
Mimi....New Plymouth office
Ngata Memorial College....Rotorua office
Brunswick....Wanganui office
We will be certain to share with you some outcomes of this learning in a
future newsletter.
Once again many thanks for providing us with this much valued feedback.
Whangarei Office for Education Services Ltd
10 May 2006
School accounting specialist EducationServices Ltd will increase its North Island Office locations to five on 1 July 2006 when the staff of current Whangarei business School Accounting and Support Services Ltd continue their professional and personable service to Northland schools under the ESL banner. |
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ESL Managing Director Wayne Costello and School Accounting and Support Services Owner/Manager Warwick Turner are very excited about the complementary strengths of both businesses positioning the company well as it responds to an increasing demand for its specialist school accounting services throughout the upper North Island.
The 1 July timing of the Whangarei office opening also marks the fifth year of establishing an office in Rotorua. The first of our Northern offices has been a spectacular and gratifying success Costello says. From a starting position of 18 clients in July 2001 by July 2006 it will have exceeded 118 clients which marks Rotorua as the office with the company's largest client base.
The Whangarei initiative strengthens the total client base for school accounting to more than 450 Primary, Intermediate and Secondary schools, which translates to 1 in every 4 North Island school partnering with Education Services Ltd. A statistic to be proud of says Costello who is quick to identify the great staff throughout the company as key to the wonderful reputation the business has earned from the education community. It is pleasing that the company has been able to develop and nurture such a wonderful team who have worked professionally and tirelessly to grow the business from its launch in 1989 at the outset of Tomorrows Schools.
The Wanganui based Property Management Services arm of the company also continues to thrive with its specialist knowledge of school property making it a valuable resource for Trustees with their need for 10-year Property Plans and architectural/works supervision.
A recent addition to the range of services provided by the company has seen the emergence of Health, Safety and Environmental Services. Market research identified such a need which is now being delivered in association with specialists that are expert in this field.
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