Kia Ōrite Toolkit – achieving equity for disabled learners
He Kete Rauemi e tutuki ai te ōritetanga
The Kia Ōrite Toolkit provides current, New Zealand-specific guidance to help tertiary education organisations better support disabled learners.
Ko tā te Kete Rauemi Kia Ōrite he tuku tohutohu ake hei āwhina i ngā whakahaere mātauranga matua ki te tautoko i ngā ākonga whaikaha.
The Kia Ōrite Toolkit is a New Zealand code of practice to achieve an inclusive and equitable tertiary learning environment for disabled learners to succeed.
The Toolkit is intended to help all tertiary education organisation (TEO) staff to become more confident about disability, and to help managers and the wider organisation to take responsibility for implementing the Toolkit’s best practices.
To help TEOs apply good practices throughout a learner’s journey, the Toolkit consists of five sections, including both management and learning support implementation toolkits.
TEOs should use the Toolkit when developing their Disability Action Plan (DAP).
The Kia Ōrite Toolkit is available on the ACHIEVE website.
Next stage for the Kia Ōrite Toolkit
The Kia Ōrite Toolkit is a living and evolving document.
A group of experts from across the tertiary education sector, coordinated by the University of Otago, developed the Toolkit. It is a re-development and expansion of the ‘Kia Ōrite Code of Practice’ policy document which advised the sector for over 15 years.
The development team welcomes your feedback, ideas and any resources you have for inclusion, so the Toolkit can continue to evolve.
Please email your feedback, ideas and resources to customerservice@tec.govt.nz with "EDUMIS – organisation name – Kia Ōrite" in the subject line.