Stage 1: What do we need to know to formulate the next Tertiary Education Strategy?
The first stage will focus on bringing together existing and easily accessible information to form a formative evaluation of the strategy, which will feed into writing the next strategy. This stage will be completed by July 2006. The immediate users for this stage of the evaluation will be the Ministry and the other tertiary education agencies as they develop the next strategy. Information from this stage will also be communicated more widely to Ministers, the sector and stakeholder groups to support the approach being taken in the next strategy. A primary focus in this stage will be on the usefulness and usability of the existing Tertiary Education Strategy as a strategy document. This information will help inform how to frame and communicate the next strategy. Information on this will come from interviews with a range of key informants across the sector. These will be people from education agencies, tertiary education organisations, sector organisations and stakeholder groups who can talk knowledgeably about the usefulness and usability of the strategy from their perspective. This stage will also bring together information from existing sources to see what we can learn about value added by the Tertiary Education Strategy in terms of influencing thinking and action. There will also be a preliminary assessment of progress towards achieving the purposes of the strategy, based on information from the monitoring project. The use of monitoring information in the evaluation will require standing back from the description of the trends to look at the association of the trends to the strategy and determining whether the amount of change is reasonable with regard to the desired direction of the strategy. The output from this stage will be a report from the expert interviews on the usefulness and usability of the TES and a discussion paper bring all three areas together. |
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