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Purpose

 

Filling the information gap

There are a number of key things that the Ministry wishes to know about stakeholder engagement with the tertiary education system:

• The range of stakeholder groups that are engaged with the tertiary education system, as well as the range of groups that are not engaged, but perhaps should be
• The ways in which the groups are engaged, or would like to be engaged
• What the groups expect from engagement with the tertiary education system, especially in terms of development goals and aspirations
• The extent to which the development goals and aspirations of the groups are or are not being progressed through the engagement
• The actual and potential value added to community, local and regional capacity and development, as well as to learner achievement and the education organisation, through stakeholder engagement with the tertiary education system.

This will tell us about the state of engagement, where there are gaps that may need to be addressed and the value that is or could be added by the tertiary education system to national, local and community development. It may also improve understanding of where engagement is appropriate and beneficial for both parties, and where it is not.

It will be important to consider the different purposes and means of engagement between groups. For example, there are likely to be significant differences between how a rural business community engages and how a large production company engages. We know from our iwi partners that there are quite differing types of engagement across iwi and for differing purposes.

Using the information

An immediate use of this work will be to inform the monitoring and evaluation of the Tertiary Education Strategy. Information from this work is also likely to inform the development of the next Tertiary Education Strategy. Information on stakeholder experiences and views is particularly critical to understanding the progress to towards the nine change messages set out in the Tertiary Education Strategy.

This work will have wider importance in terms of building good information on the education system that can inform our understanding of key trends in tertiary education and the performance of TEOs and also feed into the development of new policy, particularly around the contribution of tertiary education to national goals and development.

This work may also provide a basis for considering stakeholder engagement in the other education sectors. While the relationships, dynamics and purposes are different in the other sectors, there may well be general principles that will be transferable.

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Stakeholder Research

Engagement of key stakeholder groups with teriary education providers