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Every year, some 60,000 young people leave school and make choices about their next steps that are important for the young people themselves, their whānau, and the New Zealand economy. Here we look at the latest data and research on school leaver outcomes...

Te Pūkenga recently released an ITP Competition Report under an official information act (OIA) request. The report contains a trove of information and data about Tertiary Education Organisations (TEOs) operating in each of New Zealand’s regions. I was surprised at the sheer number of TEOs in regions that have relatively small populations, which led me to wonder whether there would be benefits to having fewer TEOs.

Domestic student university enrolments are reportedly down 3,000 this year compared with last year. Here, we examine why university enrolments might have fallen and whether they are likely to recover.

The Education Review Office (ERO) released a report recently which looked at why attendance rates are falling in New Zealand schools. Here, we dive into some of the detail around attendance and try to make sense of why it has been falling.

In Budget 2022, the Government announced that an Equity Index would replace the decile system for determining equity funding for schools. But will the new Equity Index help address disadvantage in our education system?

A well-functioning labour market requires the education system to be responsive to changing needs over time. This article details how education and the labour market interact, and where there is still room for improvement.

Standards offer a rich picture of the skills and knowledge that school students are gaining at school.

Our $5b international education sector is a New Zealand success story, and in recent years has become a poster child for our outward-looking, globally-connected economy. But the sector is facing a steep learning curve as it seeks to adapt to lower international student arrivals and a world that is struggling to contain the spread of a pandemic.

In December 2019 Minister of Education Chris Hipkins announced the areas of coverage for the new Workforce Development Councils (WDCs). Here, we take a first look at the scope of the WDC’s work in terms of the workforce that falls within their scope, and the number of job openings that are likely to occur in their industries over the medium term.

The current vocational education system in New Zealand has been in place for just over 25 years and it has had mixed success. How will the current reforms be viewed in 25 years’ time? In this article we continue to take a first principles look at vocational education and see how things could be better (or worse) over the next 25 years.