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| Monitoring the Tertiary Education Strategy - ENewsletter |
| This eNewsletter bringing you highlights and updates on the monitoring and evaluation of the Tertiary Education Strategy. |
1. Lining Up? what we can learn from profiles
The Ministry of Education released an analysis of 2005/07 and 2006/08 profiles, as part of monitoring the TES.
This analysis takes a system view of the information in profiles, noting that:
- profiles are a product of the funding process between TEOs and the TEC
- they represent an organisation-wide view of goals, objectives, priorities and activities
- they contain the TEO’s own thinking about strategy, direction and priorities
- however, it is difficult to draw conclusions from profiles on the extent to which the TES has influenced change or that TEOs are presenting their existing work within the TES framework.
Findings of the analysis include:
- There was a consistently strong change-focus across TEOs on the following TES strategies:
- Develop the skills New Zealanders need for our knowledge society
- Te rautaki mātauranga Māori – contribute to the achievement of Māori development aspirations
- Strengthen system capability and quality.
- Across the four theme areas of the 2005 Statement of Tertiary Education Priorities there has been:
- increased change-focus on investing in excellence, with significantly more tertiary education organisations focusing on effective teaching and high quality research
- decreased change-focus on increasing relevance, largely as a result of changes introduced in 2004 and 2005 being embedded as business as usual in 2006
- increased change-focus on enabling students and learners to access excellent and relevant tertiary education, particularly for Māori, Pasifika and youth transitions
- increased change-focus on enhancing capability.
- In each year, around two-thirds of TEO responses1 were concentrated in 10 out of 27 areas used for analysis. At the other end of the scale, there were six areas of analysis that accounted for only 5 percent of TEO responses.
- The areas with the greatest increase in response were all linked to actual or proposed changes in the funding system.
- In several areas, the presence of change-focussed objectives can be statistically related to the characteristics of the institution. Other areas are more universally addressed irrespective of the institutional characteristics.
Click here to browse the full report.
2. Cross-strategy indicators: some highlights
Following the release of the Monitoring Report 2005, the section on cross-strategy indicators in Monitoring Information has been updated.
Some interesting highlights from these indicators include:
- Attainment of tertiary qualifications in the population continues to grow, including an increasing proportion of the population with degrees. (Educational Attainment in the Adult Population)
- Those with vocational qualifications have had the largest gains economically over the last 8 years, with decreased unemployed, increased income and generally maintained economic standards of living. (Outcomes of Tertiary Education)
- Updated data on retention, completion and progression shows steady deterioration across all indicators as the labour market improves. (Completion Retention and Progression)
- The recent National Bibliometric Report shows increased published output from the tertiary education sector, while published outputs from other sectors has remained steady. (Research Within the Tertiary Education Sector)
- Student numbers continue to grow at ITPs and ITOs, with industry training numbers approaching the number of formal students in the ITP sector. (Tertiary Education Organisations)
We welcome your comments on these and the other indicators on these pages. Use the comment box at the bottom of the page to add your comments. You will need to type in the 3-digit code as shown to post a comment. This is an anti-spam measure.
Other sections of the Monitoring Information will be updated progressively over the next couple of months.
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