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These pages contain the original text of the Tertiary Education Strategy documents. Only edit content if you notice the text is inconsistent with the final published document. Feel free to develop your own cross references and index structure. Greater alignment of tertiary education research with national goals
While all tertiary research will have increased in quality, a significant proportion will also be more clearly concentrated in particular fields, multidisciplinary teams or providers that are aligned with national goals. This will be largely achieved through Centres of Research Excellence and Vote RS&T funding that recognises not only existing strengths but builds new strengths in areas critical for New Zealand’s economic and social development, Maori development, and environmental management. Other research activities will also be organised to reflect particular local and regional needs and specialisations. By 2007, we will have developed a better shared sense of our distinctive competencies that will have begun to lift our relative economic performance in OECD terms and to make significant progress toward other national goals. Universities will play a much more significant role in the key economic areas of ICT and biotechnology, but will also be contributing to a wide range of areas outside the core sciences. In particular, New Zealand depends on the tertiary education system for research contributing to outcomes for Maori, and for social, cultural and health research. By 2007, this will be more clearly recognised through research concentrations in these areas and by more of this research being explicitly linked to the needs of New Zealand, iwi and local communities. In 2007, polytechnic-based scholarship and research will continue to support polytechnic degree programmes and to focus on making a distinctive contribution in applied research areas. There will be a considerably higher incidence of polytechnic to polytechnic, and polytechnic-university research collaborations, and many polytechnics will work closely with local industry in technology uptake ventures. « Objective 32 | Index | Objective 34 » |
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