5 May 2011
Success for Pacific Learners
The Impact of Tertiary Education Strategies
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Research Group
Research Team
Pacific Advisory Group
• Dr John Horrocks, Lead
Researcher
• Aleki Silao, Pacific Liaison
Officer
• Kerese Manueli, Tutor
• Neil Ballantyne, Contract
Researcher and Project
Manager
• Penny Fairbrother, Research
and Contracts Officer
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Tupu Araiti ( Cook Islands)
Aiono Mino Cleverly (Samoa)
Vei Lotaki (Tonga)
Filipo Lui (Tokelau)
Pasifika Input to the Research Process
• Pacific Advisory Group
• Liaison with TEIs managed by Pasifika research
team members
• Informant interviews to be carried out by Pasifika
research team members
• Emphasis on Pasifika research capacity-building
The Evaluation Questions
1. How have government strategy documents influenced
institutional strategies of universities, institutes of technology
and wānanga to support the participation & success of
Pacific learners?
2. What impact have these institutional strategies had on
organisational change?
3. What are the perceptions of tertiary education institutions
on how the TEC & other government agencies have
incentivised and supported these organisational changes?
The Data We Are Gathering
Documentary evidence
• Government strategy documents and reports
• Existing research on government strategies
• TEI strategies & plans
Existing datasets
• TEC & MoE data
Key informant interviews
• Key staff responsible for support strategies
TEC Strategy & TEI Responses
Tertiary
Education
Commission
(TEC)
Responses of
Tertiary
Education
Organisations
(TEOs)
2002-2003
Tertiary Education
Strategy (TES)
2003-2006
2007-2012
Charters & Profiles
Second Tertiary
Education Strategy
2007
Investment Plans & Annual
Reports
2009
Third Tertiary Education
Strategy, led by Ministry
of Education
2010
Final document
published
2010
Third TES drives new round
of Investment Plans
How the Data Sources will Inform the
Evaluation Questions
Evaluation questions
Data sources
GOVdocs
TEIdocs
DataSets
Interviews
Influence of
Government strategy on
(a)TEI strategy and
(b)organisational change
Describe
strategy goals,
targets,
actions &
reports on
these
Describe
planned
initiatives &
responses
Describe
outcomes for
Pacific learners
Perceptions of Govt
plans, incentives and
supports & impacts of
these, with examples
TEI perceptions of
Government support
and incentives for TEI
organisational change
Research
commissioned
by
Government
Perceptions of
strengths & limitations
of Government
support for
organisational change
Examples of Other Relevant Literature
• Ministry of Education’s Pasifika Education Plans & Monitoring
reports
• Tertiary Education Commission’s Pacific Peoples’ Strategy 20042006 and beyond
• New Zealand Qualifications Authority Pasifika Strategy 2009-2012
• Research on TEC policy and responses to it, e.g. Synergia Ltd
(2006) Making use: Views on the use and usefulness of the Tertiary
Education Strategy 2002/7.
Responses to Date of TEIs
Invitations to participate in the project sent to all 29
public TEIs…
→ 16 accepted
→ 13 declined
Informant Interviews
Based on 2009 Roll Data – An approximate 50/50
split between face-to-face and phone interviews
• Face-to-face: Pasifika rolls >5% (mainly Auckland and
Wellington based institutions)
• Phone: Pasifika rolls <5% (other regions including South
Island based institutions)
Documents from Participants
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Charters & Profiles
Investment Plans
Business & Strategic Plans
Annual Reports
Special Supplementary Grants Reports
Other related documents
Thoughts So Far?
1. Vision versus directions
2. Complexity: Pasifika policy creation and
implementation is NOT a linear process
i.e. NOT
Policy
Action
Evaluation
3. Success for Pasifika students: May be
measured and influenced in many ways
Your Questions and Suggestions about a Key
Part of the Study – The Informant Interviews
1………………………………………………?
2………………………………………………?
3………………………………………………?
4………………………………………………?
5………………………………………………?
Bibliography
The Tertiary Education Strategy
Office of the Associate Minister of Education (2002). Excellence, relevance, and success: An introduction to the new tertiary education system. Wellington: Ministry of
Education.
Office of the Associate Minister of Education (2002). Tertiary education Strategy, 2002/07. Wellington: Ministry of Education.
Tertiary Education Commission (2004), Inspiring excellence for Pacific peoples throughout tertiary education: The Tertiary Education Commission’s Pacific people’s Strategy
2004 to 2006 and beyond. Wellington: Author.
Office of the Associate Minister of Education (2003). Statement of tertiary education priorities, 2003-2004. Wellington: Ministry of Education.
Office of the Minister for Tertiary Education (2007).Tertiary education strategy 2007-2012 (Incorporating statement of tertiary education priorities 2008-2010). Wellington:
Ministry of Education.
Office of the Minister for Tertiary Education (2009). Tertiary education strategy 2010-2015. Wellington: Ministry of Education.
Ministry of Education (2004). Tertiary education strategy 2002-2007 baseline monitoring report. Wellington: Tertiary Sector performance Analysis and Reporting, Ministry of
Education. Retrieved 29 April, 2011 from http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/series/tes/5659
Ministry of Education (2008).Tertiary education strategy 2007-12 – a framework for monitoring. Wellington: Tertiary Sector performance Analysis and Reporting, Ministry of
Education. Retrieved 29 April, 2011 from http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/series/tes/20337
Related government strategies
Secretary of Education ( 2008). Ministry of Education’s Pasifika Education plan (PEP) 2009-2012. Wellington: Ministry of Education.
Ministry of Education (2010). Pasifika Education Plan 2009 – Monitoring Report 2009. Wellington: Author. Retrieved 29 April from
http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/series/22967/pasifika-education-plan-monitoring-report-2009
New Zealand Qualifications Authority (2009). Pasifika Strategy for the New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2009-2012. Wellington: Author.
Research on development of government policy.
Eppel, E. (2009).Exploring the Usefulness of Applying Complexity Theory to the Analysis of Public Policy Processes: the case of tertiary education quality policy in New
Zealand. [ Paper presented to the 13th IRSPM Conference, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, 6-8 April 2009] Retrieved April 29, 2011 from
https://conference.cbs.dk/public/conferences/2/schedConfs/3/program.pdf
Synergia Ltd.( 2006). Making use: Views on the use and usefulness of the Tertiary Education Strategy 2002/7. [Report for the Ministry of Education]. Wellington: Author.
Milestones
DATE
March 28
MILESTONES
1st Milestone report to
Ako Aotearoa
& final project plan
confirmed
May 30
Interim report on desk
research completed.
Start of informant
interviews
Draft final report
submitted to AKO
Draft final report
signed off by AKO
July 29
September 30