Training Opportunities: Exploring what happens two months later

Course major field

The major field of study of the course was the fourth largest predictor in the model of placement outcome.⁵ The two single largest fields represented in Training Opportunities are ‘Society and Culture’ and ‘Mixed field programmes’. Learners in the ‘Society and Culture’ fields are as likely to attain an other outcome as an employment outcome, but are more likely to attain a further training outcome than an other outcome. Learners in the ‘Mixed field programmes’ field are slightly more likely to attain an employment outcome than an other outcome.

Employment is the most likely outcome where the majority of credits available are in applied vocational fields such as the ‘Agriculture Environmental and Related studies’ and ‘Engineering and Related Technologies’ fields. Further training is the most likely outcome of programmes in the ‘Education’ field.

But in ‘information technology’ an other outcome is the most likely, reinforcing other research that shows skill gaps in that industry have largely been for people with more advanced qualifications.⁶

Note: points above 1 indicate more likely to occur than an other outcome, while points below 1 indicate the outcome is less likely to occur than an other outcome.

Footnotes

5. Field of study refers to the NZSCED classification of each course. The methodology used to assign an NZSCED category to Training Opportunities courses is described in Mahoney, P. 2009a.
   

6. Earle, 2009, 2008.