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Stage 2: What do we need to know to implement the next Tertiary Education Strategy?

Proposed

Key question:	How could the implementation of the next TES support a change management process to achieve the desired outcomes?
Information purpose:	Informing the implementation of the next Tertiary Education Strategy in terms of managing the change process and communicating clear priorities to the sector and stakeholder groups
Immediate users:	Ministry, education agencies, tertiary education organisations and sector organisations
Proposed fimeframe:	July 2006 to June 2007

Focus areas:	Methods:
Where has the TES added value to the tertiary education sector? • How well has the current TES worked as a change management approach? • How well has it flowed through into sector planning and change processes? • Where do we need to improve the links between the TES and the implementation and change process?	Case studies focused on TEOs and agencies on the effect of the TES on planning, activity and output (using an organisational development approach). Supplemented with analysis of 2007/09 profiles.
Where has the TES made significant differences? • Where have there been significant or break-through changes in the way tertiary education is structured and delivered? • What are the noticeable changes from the perspectives of stakeholders from the TES? • How have these changes come about?	Case studies focused on communities of interest on significant and notable changes related to the TES (using a community development approach). Communities of interest could be geographical, business related, education related and/or socially related. Supplemented with analysis of 2007/09 profiles.

This second stage would focus on developing our understanding of the change process resulting from the current strategy, so that we could look at how to strengthen that process in the implementation of the next strategy. Information from this stage would become progressively available from late 2006, with completion by July 2007.

The immediate users of this stage of the evaluation would be those involved with the implementation of the next strategy. This covers the Ministry, education agencies, tertiary education organisations and sector organisations. Information from this stage would also be communicated to Ministers and stakeholder groups.

This stage would have a dual focus on change within the tertiary education sector and notable changes from a broader perspective of communities of interest. This information would help us understand how to promote change within the sector as well as seed changes of benefit at a local, regional and national level.

A main feature of stage could be the use a case study approach to develop a deeper understanding of how change has occurred, or not, as a result of the Tertiary Education Strategy.

The case studies focussed on TEOs and education agencies would look at how the Tertiary Education Strategy has affected planning, activity and education and research through the organisation and what benefits, if any, have occurred for learners, research users and stakeholders.

The case studies focussed on communities of interest would look at how the Tertiary Education Strategy has affected engagement between tertiary education organisations and the community of interest and the notable changes arising for the community of interest. The figure below illustrates the conceptual models for these two types of case studies.

TEO case studies Δ

Community of interest case studies Δ

The case study approach would be supplemented with analysis of the 2007/09 profiles to assess the further progress of tertiary education organisations in achieving change.

The output from this stage would be a series of case study reports, as well as an overall reporting analysing the key themes and lessons from the case studies, reinforced by the analysis of profiles. A reporting process would be built into the case study method to provide early and ongoing discussion of the key issues arising from the case studies.

Stage Two

Stage 2: What do we need to know to implement the next Tertiary Education Strategy?

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