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Mt Aspiring College

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School Qualifications: Vocational Pathway Awards

This provides ways to achieve NCEA Levels 1, 2 and 3 and develop pathways that progress to further study, training and employment. The Vocational Pathways provide a framework for students to show how their learning and achievement is valued in the workplace by aligning learning to the skills needed for industry.

School leavers are identified from the Ministry of Education’s ENROL system, while vocational pathway award is obtained from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority.

Identical information is available by regional council and territorial local authority through the Know Your Region pages.

Table 1: School leavers with at least one Vocational Pathway Award, at any level (2022-2024)
Group No VP Award VP Award Percentage with VP Award
2022 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024
Female 68 62 74 23 31 31 25.3 33.3 29.5
Male 80 66 92 12 10 13 13.0 13.2 12.4
Māori 14 17 14 2 3 1 12.5 15.0 6.7
Pacific x 0 x x 0 x x na x
Asian 5 x 11 0 x 1 0.0 x 8.3
MELAA x x x x x x x x x
Other 0 0 x 0 0 x na na x
European/Pākehā 131 119 150 34 38 42 20.6 24.2 21.9
Total 148 128 166 35 41 44 19.1 24.3 21.0

Notes:

  1. ‘x’ = data has been suppressed where there are between 0 and 5 students in the denominator for a specific group, for example Asian students. Where one gender has been suppressed the corresponding gender has also been suppressed. 'na' = not applicable.
  2. Ethnicity is multiple response, that is, students who affiliated in more than one ethnic group have been counted in each ethnic group. Students are only counted once in the total, therefore, the ethnic groups may not sum to the total.
  3. International fee-paying students and adult students (age 19+) are excluded.
Table 2: Comparison Vocational Pathway data (2022-2024)
Comparison group No VP Award VP Award Percentage with VP Award
2022 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024
Mt Aspiring College 148 128 166 35 41 44 19.1 24.3 21.0
Otago Region 2,113 2,079 2,239 492 428 503 18.9 17.1 18.3
Secondary (Year 7-15) 8,222 8,360 8,948 1,304 1,245 1,294 13.7 13.0 12.6
State: Not integrated 47,097 47,224 49,631 6,330 6,056 6,641 11.8 11.4 11.8
New Zealand 56,636 57,029 59,455 7,587 7,274 7,956 11.8 11.3 11.8

Notes:

  1. ‘x’ = data has been suppressed where there are between 0 and 5 students in the denominator for a specific group, for example Asian students. Where one gender has been suppressed the corresponding gender has also been suppressed. 'na' = not applicable.
  2. Ethnicity is multiple response, that is, students who affiliated in more than one ethnic group have been counted in each ethnic group. Students are only counted once in the total, therefore, the ethnic groups may not sum to the total.
  3. International fee-paying students and adult students (age 19+) are excluded.
Table 3: School leavers with a Vocational Pathway Award, at any level (2024)
Group Construction and Infrastructure Creative Industries Manufacturing and Technology Primary Industries Service Industries Social and Community Services Total Leavers
Female 0 8 0 2 21 1 105
Male 5 2 0 1 6 0 105
Māori 1 1 0 0 0 0 15
Pacific x x x x x x x
Asian 0 0 0 0 1 0 12
MELAA x x x x x x x
Other x x x x x x x
European/Pākehā 4 9 0 3 26 1 192
Total 5 10 0 3 27 1 210

Notes:

  1. ‘x’ = data has been suppressed where there are between 0 and 5 students in the denominator for a specific group, for example Asian students. Where one gender has been suppressed the corresponding gender has also been suppressed. 'na' = not applicable.
  2. Ethnicity is multiple response, that is, students who affiliated in more than one ethnic group have been counted in each ethnic group. Students are only counted once in the total, therefore, the ethnic groups may not sum to the total.
  3. International fee-paying students and adult students (age 19+) are excluded.

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