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).

In the current evolving economic environment, it is important for organisations to effectively implement and utilise e-learning applications, strategies and techniques to up-skill their workforce so that they are more productive, higher performing and competitive in regional, national and global contexts.

Recommendation 11 from the 2025 Taskforce chaired by Don Brash deals specifically with education including market interest rates for student loans and rationalisation of the non-university sector, whatever that might mean.

The Benchmarking and Research business activity of the Australian Flexible Learning Framework has released An investigation of the enablers and barriers to industry uptake of e-learning: Small business which examines the current status of e-learning in small business, barriers to the increased use of e-learning solutions and the potential for increased uptake of e-learning by small businesses.

What do students earn after their tertiary education? Does workplace-based industry training improve earnings? Two reports have been released today from the employment outcomes of tertiary education project. These reports form part of the initial outputs from the project, managed by the Ministry of Education, the Department of Labour and Statistics New Zealand.

The Draft New Zealand Tertiary Education Strategy (for 2011 to 2014) has been released for consultation. Full press release