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Proposed Changes to Te Wānanga o Raukawa Legislation

Te Wānanga o Raukawa has been working with the Ministry of Education to change our legislative settings. We want our legislation to better reflect our relationship with the three iwi of the ART Confederation (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Raukawa and Ngāti Toa Rangatira) who created Te Wānanga o Raukawa as an extension of the iwi planning strategy, Whakatupuranga Rua Mano. We also want to achieve a balance between tino rangatiratanga and kāwanatanga in our relationship with the Crown.

To accomplish these outcomes, the establishment of a Wānanga Sector Framework within the Education and Training Act 2020 has been implement. The Framework will describe characteristics common to all wānanga, and enable each wānanga to create its own, customised provisions within its own Order in Council.

Our Te Wānanga o Raukawa Order in Council will:

• reconstitute Te Wānanga o Raukawa as an independent statutory entity (at present it is a Crown entity)
• enable us to determine the makeup of Te Mana Whakahaere (our Council), doubling the number of iwi representatives from three to six and removing the three Crown appointees that are currently provided for
• describe our distinctive purpose and functions (at present we have no distinctive purpose or functions described in legislation)
• enable Te Wānanga o Raukawa and the Crown to develop and agree to a monitoring framework (at present, the Crown determines this)
• require the mutual agreement of Te Wānanga and the Crown to any interventions; and empower the ART Confederation to appoint a Matapopore in place of Te Mana Whakahaere where necessary (at present, the Crown has the ability to intervene; it also has the power to dissolve Te Mana Whakahaere and appoint a commissioner)
• enable Te Wānanga o Raukawa to make its own decisions to invest, borrow and dispose of assets (at present we must seek Crown permission to do so)
• require us to produce statements of strategic intention, engaging with students, the ART Confederation and the Minister as part of this process
• require us to continue producing Annual Reports, which will be publicly available.

To find out more, please read the documents below, watch the video or email any questions to WAI_2698@twor-otaki.ac.nz

To find out what this means for current or future students, please click the following link for: Questions and Answers: Raukawa proposal.

Preparation towards Tino Rangatiratanga - where we are at now

On 29 March 2023 the Education and Training Amendment Bill (no. 3) passed its first reading and went to a select committee hearing on Wednesday 3rd May where it was considered by the Education and Workforce select committee. The public had another opportunity to make submissions on the Bill in both written and oral format. On Thursday 4 August, the Bill passed its second reading, and finally on Wednesday 16 August, a large contingent from the three iwi of the ART Confederation, Te Wānanga o Raukawa staff alongside, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārāngi and Te Wānanga o Aotearoa converged on Parliament to hear the Bill pass its third and final reading.

Te Wānanga o Raukawa acknowledges the extraordinary support throughout this journey including individuals and groups who presented submissions in support of our vision, me mihi ka tika ki a koutou i tautoko mai i tā tātou kaupapa.

Our journey now continues as we prepare to become a non-Crown entity.