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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 (2022-2024)
Group No VP Award VP Award Percentage with VP Award
2022 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024
Female 157 174 149 25 32 36 13.7 15.5 19.5
Male 401 370 416 50 45 36 11.1 10.8 8.0
Māori 123 137 133 15 8 9 10.9 5.5 6.3
Pacific 54 53 71 4 7 3 6.9 11.7 4.1
Asian 40 48 56 6 12 7 13.0 20.0 11.1
MELAA 17 11 13 1 3 3 5.6 21.4 18.8
Other 6 10 9 1 1 2 14.3 9.1 18.2
European/Pākehā 458 431 433 67 60 60 12.8 12.2 12.2
Territorial Total 558 544 565 75 77 72 11.8 12.4 11.3
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 0 18 1 1 16 1 185
Male 7 16 1 0 12 0 452
Māori 1 3 0 0 5 0 142
Pacific 0 0 1 0 2 0 74
Asian 0 6 0 0 1 0 63
MELAA 0 1 0 0 2 0 16
Other 1 0 0 0 1 0 11
European/Pākehā 6 29 1 1 23 1 493
Territorial Total 7 34 2 1 28 1 637

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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