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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. Increased breadth of support for research students and emerging researchers, with a particular focus on the development of Māori researchersRefer to monitoring framework for Objective35?
The link between research activity and teaching at degree level will remain important. This ensures new knowledge is incorporated into the scholarship activities of teachers (for example, into the course content of programmes) and provides a research culture within which undergraduates learn to take a research-based approach to their lifelong educational development. This also provides students with richer learning experiences, thereby increasing their capability. High-quality postgraduate programmes will be delivered effectively in a context where most of the academic staff are doing research of a national or international standard of excellence, as assessed within the context of a performance-based research fund. Postgraduate students will be trained in research leadership and in the adaptive outlook and flexibility of mind needed to utilise new innovations and technologies in the workplace. Providers will be more responsive to the changing and increasingly complex training needs of those learning to be researchers. In addition to the need to train and mentor researchers within an environment that engenders a spirit of enquiry, coupled with the discipline of rigorous investigation, emerging researchers will be developing other skills. Tomorrow’s research and innovation leaders need skills that enable connectivity with users; adaptability, communication, and management skills; and, where appropriate, commercialisation and business skills. The development and mentoring of Maori and Pacific research students and emerging researchers will be a priority for providers, especially through their inclusion within research programmes and Centres of Research Excellence that will enable new researchers to move to research leadership roles. For Maori this will involve not only programmes of particular relevance to enhancing Maori management of natural, cultural and historical resources, but also those that build Maori skills and intellectual capital in advanced technology, value adding and other rapidly growing areas of the economy. « Objective 34 | Index | Measuring Progress » |
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