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The TES includes a focus on increasing the proportion of Pasifika staff at all levels of decision-making in the tertiary education system. This includes staff in governance, management, teaching and research positions.

The analysis of profiles found that only a few ITPs and universities had change-focused objectives relating to the support and recruitment of Pasifika staff. Those that did have objectives were mostly focused on monitoring and targets for the proportion and number of Pasifika staff at their institution. One university in 2005/07 talked about supporting recruitment and development of Pasifika staff and another mentioned supporting the Pasifika staff network.

In 2006/08 profiles, three more institutions referred to initiatives and strategies to recruit and/or support Pasifika staff. These covered increasing the number of applicants through to support networks and professional development.

A recent report on research performance of tertiary education staff¹ reinforced the need for greater support and development of Pasifika staff involved in research. The study found that European staff were twice as likely to be quality weighted in the PBRF (i.e. scoring ‘A’, ‘B’ or ‘C’) than Pasifika staff, after controlling for other factors.

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

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• Table of Contents

• The State of Play

• Cross Strategy Indicators

• Raise foundation skills

• Skills for our knowledge society

• Strengthen research and knowledge creation

• Te rautaki mātauranga Māori

• Pacific people’s development and success

• Capability and quality

• Technical and Data Definitions