Labour MPs Maryan Street and Brendon Burns are concerned at the effects of financial pressure being brought to bear on the Nelson-Tasman region’s polytechnic.
“Cuts to staff positions at both the Nelson and Marlborough campuses are a reflection of a visionless government,” said Nelson-based Labour MP, Maryan Street.
“Sometimes tertiary education provision in the regions is not always about money, but is also about opportunities, and contribution to the region. This is equally true of the Supported Training programme which has been trimmed down for 2010,” she said.
“The CEO is put in a difficult position and comments from Colin King MP that the institution has to ‘lift its game’ are ill-informed and unhelpful,” said Brendon Burns, a Marlborough NMIT Council member for eight years.
“Coming hard on the heels of the second reading of the polytechnics’ legislation which restricts the community representation on polytechnic councils, these redundancies show that this government is determined to drive polytechnics into the ground, whatever the cost to the region,” he said.
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