Our scheme aims to help people find good new jobs that match their skills and aspirations. It also aims to help people use the time to learn new skills or rehabilitate from a health condition or disability.

Astronauts may be the most well-known space workers, but there’s a wide range of opportunities available for a space career! Space is complex and requires workers with a variety of skills across science, engineering, technology, and more, including areas like communications and law. Keep reading to find out how your space career could take off.

The country is still experiencing a tight labour market, and productivity is being driven by inflation due to the continued financial impacts of the pandemic and other global economic pressures.

This page describes the immigration regulatory system, its objectives and our qualitative assessment of it. It also lists the main statutes and changes to regulation either proposed or in progress.

Watch short vlogs from the 2023 New Zealand Space Scholarship recipients. This programme, administered by MBIE's New Zealand Space Agency, has seen 5 Kiwi interns travel to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, USA.

In 2018 a mid-way review of the National Science Challenges concluded with the Science Board agreeing to fund all 11 National Science Challenges at the maximum funding amount. This amount was set by Cabinet in 2013 for 1 July 2019 – 30 June 2024, and brings the total investment to $680.8 million.