The next move was to work independently for 5 years undertaking evaluation projects, mainly for social services, before joining the early childhood initial teacher education team at the College of Education The policy expectations around early childhood education are ‘higher’ because of the first Early Childhood Education (ECE) Strategic Plan (Ministry of Education, 2002) presented nearly 20 years earlier by a previous Labour-led coalition government that set out quite explicit goals across a 10-year time frame Despite these expectations, the government did not set dates for achieving each identified goal and instead used the terms short, medium and long term within the Draft Early Learning Strategy The COVID-19 crisis created the opportunity to do away with the Budget Responsibility Rules that the government had set for itself, by referring to the ‘Rainy Day’ opt-out clause in order to ‘weather the global storm’ (Robertson, 2020, p 3)

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来自新西兰 Aotearoa 的 Kia ora

下一步是独立工作 5 年，承担主要为社会服务的评估项目，然后加入教育学院的幼儿初级教师教育团队 由于第一个幼儿期，对幼儿教育的政策期望“更高”教育 (ECE) 战略计划（教育部，2002 年）由前一届工党领导的联合政府在近 20 年前提出，该计划在 10 年的时间框架内制定了非常明确的目标 尽管有这些期望，但政府并未确定实现每个确定的目标，而是在早期学习战略草案中使用了短期、中期和长期的术语 COVID-19 危机创造了取消政府为自己制定的预算责任规则的机会，通过参考“雨天”选择退出条款以“抵御全球风暴”（罗伯逊，2020 年，第 3 页）