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" .Iran B®? "’ : ®3a K' < » ■ I -L r'MH v' lEi i fl E fl * - K ’«W . I / ■-*“'■* ...' .7' *'jilnF* / w I I • w I ? “fl \ t W /' •' 1 i 11 Ft f I < >j' t y J J j| % B r y 1 / > I 1 I I II ■■' >v< '' • :B > 'W f > g "' " ’ fl ■‘■ — * C■ KflflJnP i ■ Ws* #SSOf ■«Jf • ■'' LABOUR’S POLICY ON EDUCATION MBH IS A BASIC LESSON FOR ALL. iZIIEsB Finding a job isn’t easy when you can’t beginning of school. Further to this, an extra $4O million has read or write. What do you do? In all probability, To achieve a new standard, 2,000 new been allocated to polytechnics creating thousands nothing. Worse still, a life of crime. teachers and tutors have been put to work. Pre- of extra job training opportunities. Education is fundamental to any success- school education has been boosted by a significant Training for employment is now also under ful society. increase in training, childcare and the number of way with Access. In developing their education policy, kindergarten teachers. Labour has gone back to . MMBk Finally, and most important, Labour learned from National’s mistakes. School the beginning to ensure that even 15 years down 1 Labour is creating a balanced leavers can’t hope to find a decent job if they the track, school leavers will have worthwhile job B education system that is fair to all. haven’t got a grasp of the basics. Yet under prospects. B Parents are being better consulted National we had six years of savage cuts to the jflfljHßi The second step has been and students who strive can now education budget. The legacy is fewer skilled J to gear education to jobs that reach their full potential from primary to people to fill jobs. Some school leavers can’t even - > will be ready and waiting. Even tertiary level. ° read or write. W now, employers are crying out Mark National’s education policy against So how is the situation being improved? or s k^ ed workers. Jobs are there Labour’s realistic thinking for our children’s future. Labour’s policy on education is as simple as ABC. to be filled. Yet the sad fact is that You’ll find that they still haven’t learnt from their The first mistake Labour most unemployed are unskilled. mistakes. corrected was to strengthen the While the emphasis is back on basics, ■ basics. The education system Labour’s thinking is for the future. The aim is I A V has been taken back to an empha- to provide people with the ability to fill available I flltf H llv sis on the essential basics of reading, jobs. Secondary students are staying at school XjgJSF writing and mathematics at the very longer to ensure that they have the right skills. Authorised by A.D. Timms. General Secretary N.Z. Labour ftrty.-