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Issue Fourteen September 2009

 

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In this newsletter we cover the release of international education indicators, new data on employment outcomes of education, reports on Maori and Pasifika literacy and numeracy and note upcoming reports from the Ministry

This is the first of the bi-monthly newsletters on tertiary education analysis. These newsletters will provide an overview of work going on in the Ministry, as well as highlighting information from other organisations. We have shifted to bi-monthly issues of this newsletter - complemented by email notification of our releases - in response to the feedback from our readership survey in July.

Education at a Glance 2009: results for New Zealand

Every year, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) publishes a comprehensive report comparing education across its member countries.

This year’s Education at a Glance is published against a backdrop of a worldwide global recession. This gives added prominence to the recurring themes of the growing demand for education and the expected strains on public funding.

The OECD continues to emphasise the returns to education, both public and private. This year it explores, as it has done in earlier years, new measures of public and private returns to education. As in previous years, it plots the steady growth in international education, noting that this growth has been accompanied by increased interest in comparisons between education systems.

Education at a Glance 2009 is available from the OECD website.

A report on the results for New Zealand is available on Education Counts.

Employment Outcomes of Tertiary Education

The Ministry of Education, Department of Labour and Statistics New Zealand have been working together over the last two years to assess the feasibility of combining education and tax data to look at the employment outcomes of people who participate in tertiary education. This project has taken data from tertiary education enrolments and completions, including industry training, and linked it with tax information in the Linked Employer-Employee Dataset.

The data set is being carefully managed by Statistics New Zealand to ensure privacy and integrity in its use and will only be used for statistical reporting.

This new data set will provide detailed information on the income and employment outcomes from different types of study. The first results from the dataset will be released on 30 September. These will include detailed statistical tables and reports on income post study for students studying at tertiary education providers and for students in industry training.

More results from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills (ALL) survey

Four new reports have been released from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills survey looking at literacy and numeracy for Māori and Pasifika. These reports, along with other publications from the survey, are available on the ALL page of Education Counts.

Upcoming reports from the Ministry of Education

A new analysis of the training opportunities programme will be released within the next week. This report uses unit-record data to look at participation and outcomes across the different eligibility categories for the programmes. This report will be followed next month by a similar analysis of the Youth Training scheme.

This year’s Profile and Trends report is expected to be available by early/mid November. This year’s report will contain highlights of trends across the tertiary education sector and articles summarising areas such as industry training, participation by field of study and future demand for tertiary education. It will also feature a comparative review of tertiary education reforms in Australia and Scotland.

The annual student loans scheme report is expected to be available in early November, following tabling in Parliament.

Other reports of interest:

Crossing the Finish Line — Completing College at America’s Public Universities

This book, recently published by Princeton University, provides a detailed exploration of college completion at America’s public universities. It sheds light on issues as dropout rates linked to race, gender, and socioeconomic status. The authors focus on the progress of students in the entering class of 1999. They examine the effects of parental education, family income, race and gender, high school grades, test scores, financial aid, and characteristics of universities attended (especially their selectivity).

Using Values, Hope and Grit to Predict Academic Success and Retention in First Year Tertiary Study

This project studied the effect of personal values, hope or grit (perseverance) on retention or success in first year tertiary students. The findings indicate that grit is a stronger predictor of both retention and success in first year tertiary study than originally thought (and to a lesser extent values, and minimally, levels of hope).

The Impact of the Performance-Based Research Fund on the Research Productivity of New Zealand Universities

The introduction of the Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) has resulted in much greater scrutiny of the research activities of New Zealand universities. This study examines the impact of this greater scrutiny on the research productivity of the universities. This paper was originally published in the Social Policy Journal of New Zealand, Issue 34, April 2009.

The Economic Impact of Export Education

In 1999 the contribution of export education to gross domestic product (GDP) was estimated at $545 million. By 2001 this had more than doubled to $1.3 billion. In 2004 the estimated contribution had passed the 2 billion dollar mark, with the industry’s value-added estimated at approximately $2.2 billion.

Background of students in Alternative Education: Interviews with a selected 2008 cohort

This report presents the findings from a research project carried out in 2008 on the educational histories and pathways of alternative education (A.E.) students in New Zealand.

Motivation and Achievement at Secondary School — The relationship between NCEA design and student motivation and achievement: A Three-Year Follow-Up

This Longitudinal Research on the NCEA and Student Motivation and Achievement reports the results of the final two years of a four year research project to investigate relationships between the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) and how students think about their learning and achieve academically in secondary school.

The changing nature of young people’s transitions in New Zealand

This paper reports on research that has investigated the changing nature of youth transitions in New Zealand over the last 30 years. The research aimed to uncover whether birth cohorts of young people have undertaken the transition to adulthood differently, and if so, what caused the differences.

Which tertiary institutions are educating young, low-skill Māori men? A research note

A significant number of young Māori males leave school with no or very few NCEA credits. Tertiary education providers potentially give these young men a second chance to gain basic qualifications, with the possibility of then adding to these qualifications.

Youth in the New Zealand Labour Market - At a Glance

This report presents a wide range of labour market information focusing on youth. It is the first release in the new National Monitoring Series, which will provide comprehensive reporting on selected labour market topics.

From the National Council for Vocational Education Research (Australia)

This page lists recent publications and research on the vocational education and training sector in Australia.

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