This report summarises the main findings of a research project on how e-learning can help to improve adults’ literacy, language and numeracy skills.
While upbeat lingo abounds about ‘complementing strategic objectives’ and ‘driving productivity’, the fact is that most training does not make a significant enough impact on business results, and when it does, training professionals fail to make a convincing case about the value added to the bottom line.
We’ve been conditioned to think that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is through external rewards like money or fame, or by the fear of punishment – the carrot-and-stick approach. That’s a mistake, Daniel H. Pink says in his transformative new book. The key to high performance and satisfaction is intrinsic, internal motivation: the desire to follow your own interests and understand the benefits in them for you.
The report looked at first-year bachelors-degree students at universities, who had all achieved the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) level 3 and attained the University Entrance standard.
While academic achievement at school was the strongest predictor of first-year university success for these students, not all higher-achieving school students performed equally well at university, and some who had lower school achievement out-performed students with higher school achievement. The report looks at the factors that might explain these differences.
This analytical report from the New Zealand Ministry of Education examines the economic and social benefits of tertiary certificates and diplomas and provides new evidence of the value of a significant part of the tertiary education system. It makes use of a range of data to look at the association of tertiary certificates and diplomas to economic outcomes (employment and income) and social outcomes (well-being, social participation and inter-generational benefits).
The organisational factors that prevent employees from converting e-Learning into business achievement can be boiled down to five key principles. We call these principles the 5As, and together they make up the 5As Framework.
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Attendance at traditional face–to-face workshops for New Zealand sheep and beef farmers has been dropping steadily over the past few years. FeedSmart, an industry and government funded research program, was charged with identifying the most effective elearning approaches to use to assist New Zealand farmers to feed plan more effectively.
As a result of [...]
The Ministry of Education has released a new report on Youth Training. This follows last years’ report on Training Opportunities.
Youth Training – Statistical Profile 1999 to 2008
This report provides participation and labour market outcome analysis of the Youth Training programme between 1999 and 2008, using the Youth Training administrative dataset. This is the first [...]
Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce has today announced Ministerial appointments to the new councils of all 20 polytechnics.
The changes to councils come with the introduction of the Education (Polytechnics) Amendment Act, which requires new polytechnic councils to be appointed by 1 May 2010.
The 78 appointments comprise 33 existing council members and 45 new appointees. [...]
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The Dunedin action group petitioning the government for a trial of National Standards is holding a public meeting on Wednesday 31st March. They would like to invite parents, communities and schools to attend and hear well known [...]
