Palmerston North City

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 (2022-2024)
Group No VP Award VP Award Percentage with VP Award
2022 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024
Female 515 492 492 92 87 88 15.2 15.0 15.2
Male 647 645 645 60 51 54 8.5 7.3 7.7
Māori 358 396 380 44 39 26 10.9 9.0 6.4
Pacific 97 111 118 8 2 10 7.6 1.8 7.8
Asian 134 116 165 10 12 13 6.9 9.4 7.3
MELAA 25 23 33 2 1 3 7.4 4.2 8.3
Other 35 18 15 11 5 2 23.9 21.7 11.8
European/Pākehā 778 740 723 103 100 116 11.7 11.9 13.8
Territorial Total 1,162 1,137 1,137 152 138 142 11.6 10.8 11.1
New Zealand Total 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 2: 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 1 42 2 0 40 6 580
Male 6 21 7 8 12 1 699
Māori 1 8 1 2 15 1 406
Pacific 1 3 0 0 6 0 128
Asian 0 6 1 0 6 0 178
MELAA 0 1 0 0 2 0 36
Other 0 0 0 1 1 0 17
European/Pākehā 7 54 8 6 37 7 839
Territorial Total 7 63 9 8 52 7 1,279

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.