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Tertiary Education Strategy 2002/07

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This Strategy
The New Zealand Context: Our Development as a Prosperous and Confident Nation
The Imperative for Change
The Change in Focus: A Connected Tertiary Education System
- Change Message 1: Greater alignment with national goals
- Change Message 2: Stronger linkages with business and other external stakeholders
- Change Message 3: Effective partnership arrangements with Māori communities
- Change Message 4: Increased responsiveness to the needs of, and wider access for, learners
- Change Message 5: More future-focussed strategies
- Change Message 6: Improved global linkages
- Change Message 7: Greater collaboration and rationalisation within the system
- Change Message 8: Increased quality, performance, effectiveness, efficiency and transparency
- Change Message 9: A culture of optimism and creativity
Six Strategies
- Strategy 1: Strengthen system capability and quality
  - Objective 1: Improved strategic capacity and leadership at both governance and management levels
  - Objective 2: Increased differentiation and specialisation across the system
  - Objective 3: Greater collaboration with the research sector, the creative sectors, industry, iwi and communities
  - Objective 4: Sustainable growth of export education capability centred on a reputation for quality teaching and pastoral care
  - Objective 5: A stronger system focus on teaching capability and learning environments, to meet diverse learner needs
  - Objective 6: Learners and the wider public have confidence in high levels of quality throughout the system
  - Objective 7: A coherent and reliable system of qualifications, learning recognition and credit transfer
- Strategy 2: Te rautaki mātauranga Māori – contribute to the achievement of Māori development aspirations
  - Objective 8: Tertiary education leadership that is effectively accountable to Māori communities
  - Objective 9: Strong and balanced Māori staff profiles within the tertiary education system
  - Objective 10: Quality programmes that recognise Te Ao Māori perspectives and support the revitalisation of Te Reo Māori
  - Objective 11: Robust options for kaupapa Māori tertiary education that reflect Māori aspirations
  - Objective 12: Increased participation by Māori in both a broader range of disciplines and in programmes that lead to higher-level qualifications
  - Objective 13: A tertiary education system that makes an active contribution to regional and national Māori/whānau/hapū/iwi development
- Strategy 3: Raise foundation skills so that all people can participate in our knowledge society
  - Objective 14: Significantly improved adult foundation skill levels, achieved through increased access to foundation education in a range of learning contexts
  - Objective 15: Clearer accountability for quality and outcomes within foundation education, including a greater focus on assessment
  - Objective 16: A common understanding of the definition of foundation skills and of best practice teaching in this area
  - Objective 17: Improved linkages between secondary and tertiary education, and improved staircasing for learners within tertiary education
- Strategy 4: Develop the skills New Zealanders need for our knowledge society
  - Objective 18: Accurate and timely skills forecasting capability
  - Objective 19: Industries are supported in meeting their self-identified skill needs
  - Objective 20: Equity of access and opportunity for all learners
  - Objective 21: Learners are equipped to make informed choices about career and learning options
  - Objective 22: Broader development of skills for active citizenship and the maintenance of New Zealand’s cultural identity
  - Objective 23: Improved provision of, and better systems of recognition for, high-level generic skills
  - Objective 24: Promotion of specialist skills that contribute to New Zealand’s development
- Strategy 5: Educate for Pacific peoples’ development and success
  - Objective 25: Pacific learners are encouraged and assisted to develop skills that are important to the development of both the Pacific and New Zealand
  - Objective 26: A tertiary education system that is accountable for improved Pacific learning outcomes and connected to Pacific economic aspirations
  - Objective 27: Pasifika for Pasifika education services are assisted to grow their capability and enhance Pasifika peoples’ learning opportunities
  - Objective 28: An increased proportion of Pacific staff at all levels of decision-making in the tertiary education system
- Strategy 6: Strengthen research, knowledge creation and uptake for our knowledge society
  - Objective 29: Excellent research performance is encouraged and rewarded
  - Objective 30: Stronger accountability and enhanced performance reporting for tertiary education research
  - Objective 31: Increased global connectedness and mobility
  - Objective 32: A more focussed tertiary research investment through world-class clusters and networks of specialisation
  - Objective 33: Greater alignment of tertiary education research with national goals
  - Objective 34: Improved knowledge uptake through stronger links with those that apply new knowledge or commercialisation of knowledge products
  - Objective 35: Increased breadth of support for research students and emerging researchers, with a particular focus on the development of Māori researchers
Measuring Progress
Conclusion: This Strategy in Action
Appendix: Consultation on this Strategy

Index

Tertiary Education Strategy 2002/07