Ohu Ahumahi Workforce Development Councils work together to create a greater voice in the vocational education system, improve education pathways, and ensure industry's future skills needs are met.

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Ohu Ahumahi Workforce Development Councils strengthen industry voice in the vocational education system.

The Workforce Development Councils (WDCs) are working to give industry and employers greater leadership and influence across vocational education. Success for WDCs will mean employers – including Māori business owners – are confident that vocational education graduates are ready for work and that the future skills needs of their industry will be addressed by the vocational education system.

Six WDCs were established in October 2021 through the Reform of Vocational Education (RoVE).