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Immigration Selection and the Returns to Human Capital in NZ and Australia

Choosing whether to live in New Zealand or in Australia is a decision that both international migrants and the citizens of both countries often need to…

Final Evaluation Report of the Recognized Seasonal Employer Policy 2007-2009

This report describes and assesses the first two seasons of the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) Policy (1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008 and 1 April…

Employer-funded education and training: who receives it?

This paper analyses the level and distribution of employer-funded education and training that employees receive, using data collected by Statistics New Zealand in the first quarter…

Employers of Migrants Survey 2009 – From recruitment to retention

This report presents high-level findings from the 2009 Employers of Migrants survey. The primary objective of the survey is to assess the benefits and issues associated…

Workers with low literacy or numeracy skills: characteristics, jobs and education and training patterns

This paper examines the characteristics and education and training patterns of adults in employment who have low literacy or numeracy skills. It provides information on: their…

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…

Reshaping the secondary school curriculum: Building the plane while flying it?

This report draws on data from the NZCER National Survey of Secondary Schools 2009. The final version of the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) was released in…

Migration Trends and Outlook 2008/09

This report is the ninth in a series produced annually to provide information about trends in temporary and permanent migration. The report is prepared for: policy-makers…