beehive.govt.nz - Investment in education increases to over $9.7b

beehive.govt.nz - Investment in education increases to over $9.7b: Budget 2013 delivers $901 million in the current year and over the next four years for operating initiatives to lift educational achievement at every level of the system – from early childhood, to primary, to secondary, and into training for work, Education Minister Hekia ... “We want to see 98 per cent of all school entrants having participated in quality ECE in 2016, and 85 per cent of all 18 year-olds having achieved NCEA Level 2 or an equivalent qualification in 2017.