Education reports

Ministry of Education: Supporting professional development for teachers

August 2008: We carried out a performance audit that looked at the Ministry of Education's arrangements to support the professional development of primary and secondary school teachers after they have graduated from a teacher education programme...

Ministry of Education: Monitoring and supporting school boards of trustees

June 2008: Overall, the Ministry provides some useful training and general support for all boards. It also has good systems for supporting boards that are clearly at risk of poor performance. We have made nine recommendations...

New Zealand Qualifications Authority: Monitoring the quality of polytechnic education

May 2007: We carried out a performance audit to provide assurance to Parliament that NZQA, having delegated its quality assurance functions, has maintained enough oversight of this delegation and ensures that there are processes in place so that the Board is informed of any quality issues in the polytechnic sector...

Part 7: Unlawful expenditure by schools

Central government: Results of the 2005/06 audits.

Part 3.6: Student loan debt

Part 3.6 of a report on the results of the 1999-2000 central government audits.

Ministry of Education: Management of the school property portfolio

June 2006: School property is the second largest publicly owned property portfolio in the country, with a capital value of $7,000 million. The Ministry of Education has better controls in place than when we last audited school property management in 2001. However, it has only partly addressed our recommendations for improving its overview of the overall condition of the school property portfolio and the maintenance that school boards undertake...

Inquiry into certain aspects of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa

December 2005: This audit and inquiry into Te Wānanga o Aotearoa (TWOA) followed a request for assurance from the then Associate Minister of Education (Tertiary Education) in September 2004. There were concerns about possible conflicts of interest in transactions worth large sums of money. Other issues emerged as we began our inquiry...

Cambridge High School's management of conflicts of interest in relation to Cambridge International College (NZ) Limited

October 2005: The findings of this inquiry highlight the need for schools to carefully consider the ethical dimensions of conflicts of interest...

Part 9: Legal compliance by school boards

Central government: Results of the 2003-04 audits.

Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology's management of conflicts of interest regarding the Computing Offered On-Line (COOL) programme

November 2004: The findings of this inquiry into how CPIT managed conflicts of interest regarding the Computing Offered On-Line programme emphasise the need for public entities to carefully consider the ethical dimensions of conflicts of interest...

Inquiry into the Ministry of Education's monitoring of scholarships administered by the Māori Education Trust

October 2004: The Tertiary Education Commission raised concerns about the financial management of the scholarships by the Māori Education Trust, and the quality of the monitoring by the Ministry of Education...

Part 4: Payments for Additional Remuneration to School Principals

Central government: results of the 2002-03 audits.

Providing and Caring For School Property

August 2001: This is report assesses the Ministry’s performance in managing the property portfolio. We focused on the management arrangements in place between the Ministry and school Boards of Trustees, and the systems and processes for managing (including funding) the provision and maintenance of school property...

Central government: Results of the 1999-2000 audits

December 2000.

Student Loan Scheme – Publicly Available Accountability Information

June 2000: This report is about the Student Loan Scheme, those who have a stake in the Scheme, what their information requirements are, and whether, in our view, those requirements are being met...

First report for 2000

March 2000.

Allocation of funding for teacher education

November 1992, ISBN 0 477 02835 7.

Department of Education: Provision and management of school buildings

September 1988, ISBN 0 477 02806 3.