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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 for the region's territorial authorities using the drop down menu above. For other territorial authorities first choose the appropriate region from the drop down menu above.

Table 1: School leavers with at least one Vocational Pathway Award, at any level (2017-2019)
Group No VP Award VP Award Percentage with VP Award
2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019 2017 2018 2019
Female 72 77 120 69 63 40 48.9 45.0 25.0
Male 134 117 143 45 37 25 25.1 24.0 14.9
Māori 75 75 91 21 32 14 21.9 29.9 13.3
Pacific 6 4 12 4 2 1 40.0 33.3 7.7
Asian 4 3 x 1 5 x 20.0 62.5 x
MELAA x x x x x x x x x
Other x x x x x x x x x
European/Pākehā 143 142 191 100 79 60 41.2 35.7 23.9
Territorial Total 206 194 263 114 100 65 35.6 34.0 19.8
New Zealand Total 40,897 42,716 50,055 21,758 18,581 11,651 34.7 30.3 18.9

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: School leavers with a Vocational Pathway Award, at any level (2019)
Group Construction and Infrastructure Creative Industries Manufacturing and Technology Primary Industries Service Industries Social and Community Services Total Leavers
Female 0 11 0 10 21 3 160
Male 6 3 2 10 7 0 168
Māori 2 3 1 2 9 0 105
Pacific 0 1 0 0 1 0 13
Asian x x x x x x x
MELAA x x x x x x x
Other x x x x x x x
European/Pākehā 5 13 2 19 25 3 251
Territorial Total 6 14 2 20 28 3 328

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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