Te Mahi Ako and Skills Active Aotearoa have released their 2025 Annual Reports, reflecting a year of renewed focus, disciplined delivery, and growing confidence across the Group.

For Te Mahi Ako, 2025 was a year defined by a clear purpose: strengthening work-based learning while continuing to support learners, employers and industries through a period of ongoing change across the vocational education sector.

Operating under the theme Reset. Rebuild. Deliver., the organisation focused on creating a sustainable foundation for the future. That meant refining programmes, strengthening quality assurance, investing in assessor capability, improving systems, and maintaining a relentless focus on learner success.

Throughout the year, Te Mahi Ako continued to deliver high-quality work-based learning across Aotearoa, supporting more than 6,200 enrolments, delivering over 97,000 credits, and celebrating almost 2,000 qualification completions. Alongside these achievements, the organisation successfully introduced new programmes, strengthened quality systems, expanded support for assessors, and continued to improve the way learner voice informs future delivery.

Board Chair Butch Bradley said 2025 demonstrated the resilience of the organisation and the people behind it.

“Te Mahi Ako has weathered the storm and emerged stronger, with a renewed focus on its purpose. Our role extends beyond delivering qualifications—we exist to strengthen capability, build confidence, and support the communities and industries we serve.”

The report also highlights stories from learners, employers and sector partners whose success reflects the value of work-based learning and the relationships that underpin it.

The companion Skills Active Aotearoa Annual Report provides the wider governance perspective, outlining how the parent organisation supported the Group through continued organisational development, strengthened governance arrangements, and a focus on long-term sustainability. During 2025, Skills Active continued to provide strategic leadership for ngā mahi a te rēhia while ensuring Te Mahi Ako was well positioned to deliver on its purpose.

Together, the reports present a picture of an organisation that has moved beyond recovery and is building on a stronger, more sustainable foundation for the future.

The 2025 Annual Reports are available to download below:

·      Te Mahi Ako Annual Report 2025

·      Skills Active Aotearoa Annual Report 2025