Industry training - two reports on the performance of the industry training system

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These two reports take a view of aspects of the industry training system.

One characterises trainees according to their study load and a number of other variables and looks at whether they were successful in completing programmes. This constitutes a study of the value the Government receives for its investment in the industry training system.

The second report analyses the performance of trainees who undertake ‘limited credit programmes’ – groups of unit standards that are taken under industry training but that don’t add up to a national certificate or diploma.

These two reports take a retrospective view of the industry training system, using data to the end of 2009, This means they don’t capture the effects of operational policy changes that took effect from mid 2010 – rather they provide context for those changes.

In 2011, the Ministry of Education began a more comprehensive review of the industry training system – papers relating to that review can be found at: Review of Industry Training

Author(s): Paul Mahoney, Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis Division

Date Published: March 2012