SUPPORTING LEARNER ACCESSIBILITY ACROSS OUR ORGANISATION

Disability Action Plan

One in four New Zealanders identify as disabled. Reforms across the health and disability system, including the establishment of Whaikaha Ministry of Disabled People in 2022, signalled a shift toward working in partnership with the disability community, Māori and government, and toward support shaped by the Enabling Good Lives approach, where disabled people have choice and control over their own lives.

Within tertiary education, Disability Action Plans encourage providers to take a proactive approach to improving outcomes for disabled learners. They also reflect Aotearoa’s obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Click below to view our Disability Action Plan.

Disability Action Plan

Supporting our Learners

Native Tech's Disability Action Plan

Diversity & Inclusivity

Native Tech is not required to have a Disability Action Plan. We developed one anyway, and we started early. Many of our learners are neurodiverse or need additional support to succeed, and we believe the right time to design that support is before it is needed, not after a learner has struggled without it.

Native Tech was established to open pathways for rangatahi into the digital and creative industries through a kaupapa Māori grounded approach to education. Our purpose is to help rangatahi discover their talent, build mastery and connect to real opportunities that lead them toward their people, purpose and passion. That purpose cannot be fulfilled if any learner is held back by barriers we could have removed.

Our plan reflects this. Rather than treating accessibility as compliance, we treat it as part of our kaupapa. It records what we have already put in place, from sensory spaces and Rangatahi Navigators to equipment and early identification of learner needs. It is honest about where our capability ends. And it sets out our objectives through to 2029, grounded in the Kia Ōrite Toolkit, Enabling Good Lives and Universal Design for Learning.

 

Accessible Formats

Accessibility should apply to the plan itself, so it is available in the following formats:

Audio, Braille and New Zealand Sign Language versions are being developed as part of our accessibility work programme.