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Issue Twelve June 2009

 

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This month we are seeking your views about how best to provide information and reports to you. We also announce the release of reports on the future demand for tertiary education, the supply of advanced qualifications and the cost of fees. We highlight new reports from the Department of Labour and a longitudinal study of young people.

Let us know what you think

We are improving the ways in which we provide statistics, research and information about tertiary education in New Zealand.

We invite you to fill in the following survey to tell us about what tertiary education information and reports you use and how you would like to find out about and receive them. Please respond by 16 July 2009.

The survey is now closed

Future demand for tertiary education

This study, recently released by the Ministry of Education, models the demand for tertiary education between 2009 and 2025 based on underlying population trends and three scenarios with different assumptions about how rates of participation in tertiary education might vary.

The analysis shows that demand for formal provider-based tertiary education by domestic students will increase over the medium to long term. This is driven by the current economic recession, long-term government goals for skill enhancement, and changes to the ethnic mix and age structure of New Zealand’s population.

The report is available on the Education Counts website.

Trends in the supply of advanced qualifications

This recent report is the last in a series of three reports looking at the supply of and demand for advanced trade, technical and professional qualifications.

The report shows that there is evidence of ongoing shortages of graduates in engineering and related technologies, architecture and building, as well as some specialist health areas.

The report is available on the Education Counts website.

Counting the cost

The Ministry recently published a report that examines trends in domestic tuition fees under various government policies since 1990. In particular, there is a focus on trends in domestic tuition fees under the current Fee and Course Costs Maxima policy.

The study finds that increases in domestic tuition fees have been lower under the Fee and Course Costs Maxima policy than in the unregulated environment during the 1990s.

The report is available on the Education Counts website.

Forthcoming from the Ministry

Within the next few weeks, the Ministry will be releasing new reports on:

• the effect of the economic cycle on participation in education
• indicative enrollment figures for 2009.

Completion statistics for 2007 and 2008 will also be released shortly.

From the Department of Labour

The Department of Labour has completed two reports on the New Zealand knowledge economy. The first provides a review of international methodologies for measuring the knowledge economy. The second provides baseline evidence on the performance of local and regional knowledge economies in New Zealand.

These reports are available on the Department of Labour website.

The Department of Labour has also produced a report on Engineers in the New Zealand Labour Market. It is the result of a collaborative study between the Department of Labour, the Institution for Professional Engineers of New Zealand and the Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand. The report presents indicators on the supply of and demand for engineers and complements the Ministry of Education advanced qualifications report referred to above.

The report is available on the Department of Labour website.

Competent learners leave school

Competent Children, Competent Learners is a longitudinal study undertaken by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER). It began in 1993 and follows the progress of a sample of around 500 New Zealand young people from early childhood education through schooling and beyond. The full set of reports from the age-16 phase of the project have now been published.

There is a summary report of the key findings at age 16. The main report details students’ participation in school, their experiences of learning, and their achievement in terms of the study’s competency measures and their NCEA results. It also describes overall patterns of family life, friendships and interests out of school at age 16. An additional report focuses on what students at age 16 thought about leaving school, what they saw as the most likely barriers to having the kind of life they wanted, and what the idea of “career” meant to them. There is also another report following up analysis of the effects of the transition to secondary school at age 16 on students’ engagement and achievement.

Data collection for the age-20 phase is now underway, with the first results likely to be published next year.

The age-16 reports are available on the Education Counts website.

Ordering hard-copy reports

We are encouraging greater use of the on-line copies of our reports and limiting the number of people we mail hard copies to. Hard copies are still available on request for most reports. If you would like a hard copy of any of our reports please email Kate Andrew.

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