Te Pūkenga mega-polytech CEO resigns after weeks on paid leave

Te Pūkenga mega-polytech CEO resigns after weeks on paid leave
After more than a month on special leave at full pay, Stephen Town resigned. (Image: supplied)
Pattrick Smellie
The chief executive leading the troubled merger of the country’s 16 polytechnics has resigned after more than a month on special leave at full pay.Stephen Town, the chief executive at Auckland Council before he took the lead on the mega-merger to create Te Pūkenga two and a half years ago, has been on leave from his $640,000 to $649,000 a year job since early July.He left his post shortly after a damning assessment sent on May 16 by the Tertiary Education Commission to education minister Chris Hipkins on the institution’s readiness...

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