Adult Continuing & Community Education

It is UnitedFuture policy to:

  • Support the Adult and Community Education sector's 10 year sector strategy, "Real Value: Investing in Ordinary People - Adult and Community Education in New Zealand," and work with the sector to achieve its implementation.
  • Develop a strategy for adult and community education that determines the most appropriate provision of learning opportunities in both urban and rural settings
  • Establish a network of ‘rural education posts’ to serve as adult and community education information centres and meeting places and providers, utilising existing educational facilities
  • Increase funding for adult literacy programmes, including those in workplaces, and ensure that every community education centre runs such programmes.
  • Increase funding for budget advice programmes, and ensure that every community education centre runs such programmes.