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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 2,362 2,313 2,524 153 117 104 6.1 4.8 4.0
Male 1,377 1,376 1,491 76 51 44 5.2 3.6 2.9
Māori 1,160 1,146 1,302 59 44 44 4.8 3.7 3.3
Pacific 263 270 317 15 9 12 5.4 3.2 3.6
Asian 215 267 319 13 17 18 5.7 6.0 5.3
MELAA 92 82 112 11 7 4 10.7 7.9 3.4
Other 72 77 75 6 6 0 7.7 7.2 0.0
European/Pākehā 2,499 2,420 2,838 150 115 111 5.7 4.5 3.8
Total 3,739 3,689 4,015 229 168 148 5.8 4.4 3.6

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
Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu 3,739 3,689 4,015 229 168 148 5.8 4.4 3.6
Not Applicable 4,604 5,091 5,398 255 245 211 5.2 4.6 3.8
Correspondence School 4,088 4,464 4,858 255 238 207 5.9 5.1 4.1
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 4 39 1 7 48 8 2,628
Male 6 13 10 0 20 0 1,535
Māori 3 12 2 4 21 3 1,346
Pacific 0 4 0 1 7 0 329
Asian 0 7 3 0 9 0 337
MELAA 0 0 1 0 3 0 116
Other 0 0 0 0 0 0 75
European/Pākehā 9 40 6 6 50 7 2,949
Total 10 52 11 7 68 8 4,163

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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