Funding and payments
Funding and payments
How Gateway funding is set and payments are made. Also includes funding recoveries, funding allocation and the process for decreasing enrolments.
How Gateway funding is set and payments are made. Also includes funding recoveries, funding allocation and the process for decreasing enrolments.
The Gateway funding mechanism is issued by the Minister responsible for tertiary education. The funding mechanism outlines the general form and essential components of the fund. It provides the mandate for us to allocate the funding and what the funding can be used for, and details how we administer the fund. Funding is agreed off-Plan via a funding confirmation letter. A school that receives Gateway funding is required to: We provide Gateway funding so schools can meet the costs of arranging and managing workplace learning for enrolled students, including workplace assessment. A school can either manage the Gateway programme itself, or use a broker to provide all or part of the programme on its behalf. While a school may use the funding to meet the costs of a broker, Gateway funding is not to be used to pay for students to attend courses provided by tertiary education organisations. The value of the programme lies in the way it supports students’ transition into the workplace . If your school doesn’t receive Gateway funding currently, and is interested in doing so, please submit an application to us before 31 August. To apply, complete the Gateway Funding Application Form (Word, 35 Kb). Please also read these web pages and the Gateway Handbook (PDF, 792 Kb) about ensuring that your school delivers a high-quality Gateway programme. We consider applications in September for funding for the following calendar year. As we have a limited amount of funding to allocate, we consider an application from a new school only if sufficient funding is available. Please contact our Customer Contact Group to find out more about how to apply. When allocating Gateway funding, we consider: Gateway funding is allocated per place on a sliding scale – as the number of places increases, the amount of funding per place decreases. For more details see the Gateway Handbook (PDF, 792 Kb). 2020 funding per place The first place is funded at $2,895.00 and 85 or more places are funded at $1,041.00 per place (excluding GST). Full details of the payment rates are available in Gateway – 2020 funding rate sliding scale (Excel, 20 Kb). 2021 funding per place Full details of the payment rates are available in Gateway – 2020 funding rate sliding scale (Excel, 20 Kb). These rates include a general 1.6% increase to funding for 2021. You can ask to reduce your funded Gateway places if you are likely to enrol fewer students in the programme than you agreed to. If your school knows it won’t use all of its Gateway allocation for a particular year, please contact the Customer Contact Group as soon as you can. To apply for a reduction in Gateway places, complete our Proposal for decreased places form (Word, 40 Kb) and email it to our Customer Contact Group. Gateway funding is paid in monthly instalments. The payment amounts are in equal instalments from January to June, and in equal instalments from July to December. Purpose of Gateway funding The purpose of the Gateway Fund is to support school students’ transition into the workforce by offering them workplace learning while at secondary school. Gateway programmes are based on a formal agreement and individualised learning plans between the school, the student and the workplace. The information below provides a summary of how your indicative allocation was calculated. For more details regarding your specific allocation, please contact customerservice@tec.govt.nz or your Relationship Manager. Starting point To determine the starting point for calculating your 2021 indicative allocation we compared your 2019 actual Gateway delivery with your 2020 allocation. Note: Your 2019 actual delivery has been adjusted for any additional funding provided (including flexible funding), funding rate increases, and significant policy changes. Your reviewed 2020 allocation includes Plan changes and excludes one-off adjustments. We make these adjustments to ensure we are accurately comparing your 2019 actual delivery with your 2020 allocation, in dollar terms. If your 2019 actual delivery was below 95%, we used the lesser of either your: If your 2019 actual delivery was 95% or above, we used you: If you delivered Gateway for the first time in either 2019 or 2020, we used your: To determine your final 2021 allocation, we will consider the following information in our assessment and/or engagements with you: Next, we consider your Gateway 2019 average credit achievement per distinct learner If your average credit achievement per distinct learner was zero or if you did not report any Actuals for 2019: We will recover funding if you deliver less than 100% of your allocated Gateway funding. We will recover the difference between the value of actual delivery and 100% of allocated Gateway funding. Recoveries are based on: If we are satisfied on reasonable grounds that a school has not met or is not meeting the conditions on funding we may revoke or suspend the funding under section 159ZF of the Education Act 1989.Funding
Accessing Gateway funding
Funding allocation
Decreasing your funded Gateway places
Payments
Funding allocation
Our approach to calculating your 2021 indicative allocation for Gateway
2021 Gateway indicative allocations
How we calculated your 2021 indicative allocation for Gateway
Determining your final 2021 funding allocation
Funding recoveries
How we will calculate any recoveries for 2019 Gateway funding
Suspending or revoking Gateway funding