MonitoringReport2005 Maori Staff in Tertiary Education
 

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The TES includes a focus on developing a strong and balanced Māori staff profile within the tertiary education system. This means Māori being well represented in TEO staffing, particularly in teaching, research and decision-making positions.

The analysis of 2005/07 and 2006/08 TEO profiles shows that recruitment and support of Māori staff is only picked up in some TEI profiles. As ITOs employ relatively few staff and rely on contracted providers and assessors, their lack of focus on this area is understandable.

In 2005/07 profiles, the most common type of objective related to monitoring the proportion and/or number of Māori staff in the institution. Some TEIs talked about developing support networks and one talked about flexible employment arrangements. There was also a focus in some on developing Māori staff for management and leadership positions. Only two talked about developing a recruitment and retention strategy.

In 2006/08 profiles, more TEIs, particularly universities, were focused on developing strategies and initiatives to improve recruitment and retention of Māori staff. Others mentioned staff development and monitoring of recruitment and staff data.

Māori research staff held in greater peer esteem and make greater contribution to the research environment
A recent report from the Ministry of Education examines the relationship between staff characteristics and their assessed research performance in the 2003 PBRF Quality Evaluation1. The research used the various component and overall quality scores as a measure of research performance.
Using the research output score, the research found that Māori female staff received a lower score than European female staff, after taking other factors into account. No difference was found for Māori males.
On the peer esteem score, the research showed that male Māori staff received a peer esteem score 0.42 points higher than their European counterparts, while there was no statistical difference between scores achieved by female Māori and European staff.
Analysis of the contribution to research environment score found that Māori professors received higher scores than their European peers on average.
Once these scores were combined into the overall weighted measure of quality, no significant difference by ethnicity could be found, that is, the differences in the component scores evened out.
 

1 Warren Smart, What Determines the Research Performance of Staff in New Zealand’s Tertiary Education Sector?, Ministry of Education, 2005. (↑)

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