Tertiary

Changes in Student Allowances in 2008

Since 2005 the number of student allowances recipients has risen by 5 percent each year, reaching 65,700 in 2008.

Author(s): Central Forecasting and Modelling Unit [Ministry of Education]

Date Published: July 2009

Ebbs and flows: Participation in post-compulsory education over the economic cycle

This report examines historical enrolment data to analyse the association between the economic cycle and participation in senior secondary school and in tertiary education.

Author(s): Warren Smart, Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis & Reporting, Ministry of Education

Date Published: July 2009

April 2009 tertiary education enrolments snapshot

• More domestic and international students studied at higher levels and in longer qualifications in April 2009 compared with April 2008.
• Formal enrolments increased from April 2008 to April 2009 by 2.8 percent and when this number is converted to equivalent full-time student units the increase was bigger – up by 6.2 percent. This means that the average study load per student has risen.
• A rise in enrolments by 18 to 24 year-olds was the main driver of the latest increase, while fewer people aged 40 years or over studied in April 2009.

Topics covered in this factsheet include qualification levels, place of study, age and ethnic group, student allowances and student loans.

Author(s): Mieke Wensvoort, Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis and Reporting

Date Published: June 2009

Advanced trade, technical and professional qualifications – trends in supply

This is report is the last in a series of three reports looking at the supply of and demand for advanced trade, technical and professional qualifications.

Author(s): David Earle, Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis and Reporting team

Date Published: June 2009

Future demand for tertiary education in New Zealand: 2009 to 2025 and beyond

This study models demand for tertiary education between 2009 and 2025 based on underlying population trends and three scenarios with different assumptions about how rates of participation in tertiary education might vary.

Author(s): Ralf Engler, Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis & Reporting [Ministry of Education]

Date Published: June 2009

Counting the cost: an analysis of domestic tuition fees

This report examines trends in domestic tuition fees under various government policies since 1990. In particular, there is a focus on trends in domestic tuition fees under the current Fee and Course Costs Maxima (FCCM) policy.

Author(s): Warren Smart, Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis & Reporting, Ministry of Education

Date Published: June 2009

2008 Tertiary Education Enrolments

• The shift from level 1 to 3 certificates to higher-level and longer qualifications (levels 4 to 10) continued in 2008.
• More young New Zealanders – students under 25 years of age – studied bachelors degrees and graduate/postgraduate certificates and diplomas in 2008.
• Formal tertiary education enrolments fell from 2007 to 2008. The main contributor to the overall decrease was the fall in domestic enrolments in level 1 to 4 certificates.

Author(s): Mieke Wensvoort, Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis, Ministry of Education.

Date Published: May 2009

A closer look at completion in higher education in New Zealand

New Zealand has one of the lowest reported higher education qualification completion rates in the OECD, significantly below Australia. Why do so many New Zealand students not complete their qualification? This paper looks behind some of the numbers in an attempt to better understand and assess New Zealand's performance compared with Australia and internationally. It looks, for example, at the impact of part-time and partial qualification study on completion rates. New Zealand has the highest reported level of part-time study in the OECD, and one in eight bachelor’s-degree students in New Zealand pass every subject they've enrolled in, yet have not completed their degree after five years. What does this tell us about intentions and about how we should gauge success?

The paper takes another look at some international comparisons focussing on full-time students, and also looks at the impact of transfers, changing qualifications, and what happens to rates when a ten-year window is taken instead of a five-year window.

Author(s): David Scott, Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis & Reporting, Ministry of Education

Date Published: May 2009

Skills, qualifications and wages: An analysis from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills survey

This study used data from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills survey to look at the extent to which hourly wages can be explained by skills and qualifications across industries and occupations. Hourly wages can be viewed as a measure of employee productivity. The results show that qualifications and literacy and numeracy skills are both related to higher hourly wages. However, the effects differ across industries and occupation. In addition, age, gender and first-language also have an influence on wages.

Author(s): David Earle, Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis and Reporting, Ministry of Education.

Date Published: May 2009

High Level Executive Summary: Quality Teaching, Research and Development Māori Medium

The focus of this summary is on the Māori Medium which involved a university team, two school based hubs (settings) of teachers with in-service teacher educator support and a provider to support on-line communication and materials development.

Author(s): Developed from research coordinators’ original reports with their agreement.

Date Published: May 2009

Released on Education Counts: August 2009

Category: Māori Medium

Pasifika tertiary education students by ethnicity: 2007

This is edition two in an annual series on the Pasifika tertiary education students by ethnicity. There is an associated set of tables available on the Pasifika education statistics page here on Education Counts.

This factsheet includes gender information on the ethnicities of New Zealand’s Pasifika tertiary education students. It shows the trends in participation in tertiary study for the various Pasifika ethnicities: what qualifications Pasifika students are taking, where they are studying, their field of study, their ages, and other important characteristics of Pasifika students.

Author(s): Mieke Wensvoort

Date Published: April 2009

Pasifika peoples in tertiary education in New Zealand: 2007

This is edition two in an annual series on Pasifika tertiary education students. There is an associated set of tables available on the Pasifika education statistics page here on Education Counts.

This factsheet includes gender information on Pasifika tertiary education students, the qualifications students are taking, where they are studying, field of study, student allowances and loans and other important characteristics of Pasifika students. Also included is information on Pasifika employees in industry training and some comparisons with international students from the Pacific.

Author(s): Mieke Wensvoort

Date Published: April 2009

Industry Training – Exploring the Data

This report examines industry training administrative datasets to determine the feasibility of their use for analytical purposes. It finds that the industry training data, despite some flaws, is suitable for use for identifying key trends in industry training, and for wider analyses.

Author(s): Paul Mahoney, Senior Research Analyst

Date Published: April 2009

Modern Apprenticeships – Completion Analysis

This report describes an analysis of the Modern Apprenticeships scheme through examination of the Modern Apprenticeship coordinator data collection, and the industry training administrative dataset. The report extends the concepts and statistical methods used in the companion report industry training - exploring the data.

Author(s): Paul Mahoney, Senior Research Analyst

Date Published: April 2009

Trends in fields of study of bachelors degree graduates in New Zealand

This report looks at trends in the fields of specialisation of bachelors degree graduates in New Zealand over the period 2002 to 2006. It uses newly developed, more detailed, and more reliable information on field of study than has previously been available.

Teacher education, business and management, and studies in human society, sales and marketing, law and nursing were the most common fields of specialisation for domestic bachelors graduates in 2006. The fastest growing areas have been biological sciences, law, communication and media studies, and social work and counselling. The fastest declining areas were information technology, teacher education, education studies, and accountancy.

The report also analyses field of study differences between provider types, domestic and international, male and female, and between different ethnic groups.

Accompanying this report is a large range of new tables on field of study.

Provider-based enrolments: field of study
Provider-based equivalent full time students (EFTS): field of study
Field of specialisation for students gaining qualifications

Author(s): David Scott, Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis and Reporting, Ministry of Education

Date Published: April 2009

Promoting quality research

This report used data from the Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) Quality Evaluations to analyse the factors associated with the likelihood of university academics being promoted between 2003 and 2006.

Author(s): Warren Smart, Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis & Reporting, Ministry of Education

Date Published: April 2009

Labour market outcomes of student support recipients

This study examines the relationship between receipt of student support and earnings three and five years after tertiary education.

Author(s): Bhaskaran Nair, Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis & Reporting, Ministry of Education

Date Published: March 2009

Making an impact

This report analyses the bibliometric performance of New Zealand universities between 1994 and 2007 using data from Thomson Reuters. The report also examines the impact of the Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) on the academic impact of research by staff at New Zealand universities, as measured by citations per publication. In addition, the report compares the bibliometric performance of New Zealand universities with Australian universities.

Author(s): Warren Smart, Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis & Reporting, Ministry of Education

Date Published: March 2009

Does it really matter where you study?

This report compares the earnings of people who have completed a bachelors degree at a university with the earnings those who completed a similar qualification at a polytechnic.

Author(s): Roger Smyth, Jamie Hyatt, Bhaskaran Nair and Warren Smart [Ministry of Education]

Date Published: March 2009

‘Well-being and education’ and ‘How well do qualifications predict literacy and numeracy’: short analyses from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey

These two fact sheets provide short analyses from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey 2006. They look at:

• The relationship between New Zealanders’ education level and their assessment of their well-being
• The extent to which educational qualifications can be used to predict literacy and numeracy levels

Author(s): Comparative Education Research and Tertiary Sector Performance Analysis and Reporting, Ministry of Education

Date Published: March 2009