Investing in Educational Success is a major Government initiative designed to help further lift student achievement in New Zealand. It focuses on raising teaching quality and enabling schools to work together to share teaching and leadership resources.
Work is continuing with representatives from the education sector, and some aspects are subject to bargaining of the relevant collective agreements.
How Investing in Educational Success was developed
In January 2014 the Prime Minister announced that the Government was investing an extra $359m in funding over the next 4next four years, and $155 million$155m a year after that, to help raise student achievement.
A working group of education sector leaders gave advice on how to progress this initiative - Investing in Educational Success (IES). The Government welcomed this advice and instructed the Ministry of Education to work with the education sector to finalise the design.
You can read the working group’s report and other key documents that show how the policy was developed.
Information on the development of Investing in Educational Success
Here you will find the documents that provide the background to Investing in Educational Success and show how the policy was developed.
The documents in this section illustrate the evolution of the IES policy. Through the process, a range of options were considered, and the scope and scale of the initiative changed over time. This is to be expected as part of any good policy development process.
Working Group’s Report
This sets out the thinking and recommendations of the sector representation that helped the Government develop IES. The Working Group comprised of unions, principals’ associations, school governance associations, Māori and Pasifika education representatives, and early childhood sector representatives.
Key documents
These include cabinet papers and other key documents that record decisions made and set out the proposals for IES.
Proposals for policy developments that fed into IES
Proposals on IES roles
Proposals on working with the education sector to develop IES
Cabinet papers covering the detail of IES
Other documents
These provide further background information on the development of IES.
Information on teaching and leadership career pathways
- Aide Memoire: Stakeholder Engagement
- Our Proposition: Aotearoa New Zealand – the world’s number one education system
- Teacher and Leadership Career Pathways – English and Maori Medium Schools
Information on supporting and developing teaching and leadership
- Recognising and Supporting School Teachers and Leaders
- Aide Memoire - Recognising and Supporting School Teachers and Leaders
- Investment for Success: Four Initiatives, Career Pathways, Three Implementation Scenarios
Possible options for career pathways and new roles as part of IES
- Investment for Success – Options for Career Pathways
- Aide Memoire: Investment for Success
- Memo to Geoff Short – Investing for Success
Note of decisions made on IES policy
Information on the details of IES
- Investing for Success
- Aide Memoire: Investing in Educational Success (IES) Working Group – Final report
- Education Report: Investing in Educational Success: Final report of the Working Group and next steps
- Aide Memoire: Investing in Educational Success Initiative Programme Scope
- Aide Memoire: Investing in Educational Success: design and implementation
- Aide Memoire: Design and Implementation Cabinet paper
Update on the IES progress
- Aide Memoire: Meeting with the Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment to discuss progress on Investing in Educational Success
- Aide Memoire: Meeting with Joint Ministers to discuss progress on Investing in Educational Success
- Talking points: Meeting with Joint Ministers to discuss progress on Investing in Educational Success Initiative
- Aide Memoire: Community of Schools Implementation
- Education Report: Investing in Educational Success: Update report on design and implementation
- Education Report: Investing in Educational Success: Update to Joint Ministers
- Investing in Educational Success: Design and Implementation
- Education Report: Communities of Schools: Progress Update and Requests for Approval