Evidence Matters (Issue 2: April-May 2010)

The 2010 Monitoring Teacher Supply report provides the Ministry with a snapshot of the number of entitlement staffing vacancies and re-advertised vacancies in schools at the start of Term 1, how these vacancies are being covered and, in the case of secondary schools, in what subject areas pressure points are occurring.

This report focuses on the effectiveness of the 2006-2008 Information and Communication Technologies Professional Development (ICT PD) School Clusters programmes and supplements previous evaluations of the first six ICT PD programmes. It is the last report of an ongoing evaluation of the ICT PD teacher professional development initiative, which has been implemented in New Zealand since 1999.

• New Zealanders up-skill as more students take on higher study.
• Strong upward movement in international student numbers.

This report includes information on students: choice of provider, qualifications taken, and other important characteristics of people undertaking tertiary education study. Follow this link for a full set of enrolments statistics.

This report examines the economic and social benefits of tertiary certificates and diplomas and provides new evidence of the value of a significant part of the tertiary education system. It makes use of a range of data to look at the association of tertiary certificates and diplomas to economic outcomes (employment and income) and social outcomes (well-being, social participation and intergenerational benefits).

The study considered a population of first-year bachelors-degree students at university, who had all achieved the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) level 3 and attained the University Entrance standard.

This report presents data on students who received support from Resource Teachers: Literacy (RT:Lit) during 2008. A new reporting form designed to improve the quality of data used to report students’ literacy gains as a result of the intervention was introduced in Term 4 of 2008. As a result, some of the results for 2008 are not directly comparable with those presented in previous years.

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 the first time this information has been made available in a single analysis.

The report provides analyses of participation in the programme, and provides statistical modelling of the factors related to transition to Youth Training from school, and the factors associated with labour market outcomes two months after leaving placements.