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School leavers’ progression to bachelors-level study

This study looks at the likelihood of people leaving school for bachelors level study.  It considered school leavers who had gained the University Entrance standard. The…

Non-formal and formal learning – Adults in education

This fact sheet looks at the percentage of adults aged 25 to 64 engaged in some form of study in 2006. In particular, it includes new…

Ua Aoina le Manogi o le Lolo: Pasifika Schooling Improvement Research - Final Report

The current project focuses on the effectiveness of Schooling Improvement initiatives for Pasifika. The purposes were to identify the practices that work to raise achievement and…

Training Opportunities: Exploring what happens two months later

This paper builds on previous statistical analysis published by the Ministry of Education on Training Opportunities, a programme designed to help people get into the labour…

Tertiary education, skills and productivity

This report updates and extends an article that was first published in Profile and Trends 2007 (Ministry of Education, 2008). It provides an overview of the…

Comparing university tuition fees with PBRF performance

This report examines the association between the price of bachelors-level tuition at New Zealand universities with the results of the Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) Quality Evaluation.

Youth Training - Statistical Profile 1999 to 2008

This report provides participation and labour market outcome analysis of the Youth Training  programme between 1999 and 2008, using the Youth Training  administrative dataset. This is…

Lifelong Literacy: The integration of key competencies and reading

This report presents the findings of a research project which explored how the key competencies described in The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007) might…

Better than a professional? Students as co-contributors to educational design

NZCER’s Families and Communities Engagement (FACE) project investigated ideas and practices involved in bringing together teachers, families, local communities and students to contribute to collective conversations…

The Evolving NCEA

This report draws on data from the three-yearly NZCER National Survey of Secondary Schools, with a particular focus on new data gathered in the 2009 survey…