New Minister Andrew Little says that free tertiary education for students will be influential in training up young people for a new kind of workforce.
The Government has announced a return to free tertiary education with the first year of tertiary educated to be funded from 2018.
Tertiary education was free in the 1960s and 1970s before switching to a user pays model in th1990s.
Mr Little says that the new funding will enable New Zealand to train a workforce that is able to adapt to new models of work.
"There are a whole lot of skills, practical skills and intellectual skills that we need and the reality is the way work is going thinks like understanding information, data, being analytical, understanding technology.
"That stuff is going to be just as important as the guys building our houses, the nurses looking after us in our health system, all of those sorts of things all those skills are needed."
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