Success for Pacific Learners

1. 5 May 2011 Success for Pacific Learners The Impact of Tertiary Education Strategies

2. Research Group Research Team Pacific Advisory Group Tupu Araiti ( Cook Islands) Aiono Mino Cleverly (Samoa) Vei Lotaki (Tonga) Filipo Lui (Tokelau) • 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

3. 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

4. The Evaluation Questions • How have government strategy documents influenced institutional strategies of universities, institutes of technology and wānanga to support the participation & success of Pacific learners? • What impact have these institutional strategies had on organisational change? • What are the perceptions of tertiary education institutions on how the TEC & other government agencies have incentivised and supported these organisational changes?

5. 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

6. TEC Strategy & TEI Responses

7. How the Data Sources will Inform the Evaluation Questions

8. Examples of Other Relevant Literature • Ministry of Education’s Pasifika Education Plans & Monitoring reports • Tertiary Education Commission’s Pacific Peoples’ Strategy 2004-2006 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.

9. Responses to Date of TEIs Invitations to participate in the project sent to all 29 public TEIs… → 16 accepted → 13 declined

10. 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)

11. Documents from Participants • Charters & Profiles • Investment Plans • Business & Strategic Plans • Annual Reports • Special Supplementary Grants Reports • Other related documents

12. Thoughts So Far? • Vision versus directions • Complexity: Pasifika policy creation and implementation is NOT a linear process i.e. NOT • Success for Pasifika students: May be measured and influenced in many ways

13. Your Questions and Suggestions about a Key Part of the Study – The Informant Interviews 1………………………………………………? 2………………………………………………? 3………………………………………………? 4………………………………………………? 5………………………………………………?

14. 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 Relatedgovernment 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.

15. Milestones