education in 2016;  85% of all 18 year olds will have achieved NCEA level 2 or an equivalent qualification in 2017; and  60% of 25 to 34 year olds will have a qualification at Level 4 or above on the New Zealand Qualifications Framework by 2018. 113 Pacific students’ performance in NCEA level 2 has also progressively improved. Seventy five percent of Pacific students achieved NCEA level 2 in 2014 compared with 65% in 2011. Pacific participation and achievement in tertiary education has also increased in recent years.60 114 However, despite these improvements the gap between Pacific and other ethnicities remains. In 2014, 75% of Pacific 18-year-olds had at least NCEA Level 2, compared with 85.1% of 18-year-olds of European descent, and the overall national rate of 81.2%.61 115 The Pasifika Education Plan: 2013 -2017 is aimed at raising participation, engagement, and achievement from early learning through to tertiary education. it sets the following targets which are also Better Public Service targets: 116 60  85% of children starting school will have participated in early childhood education by 2017; and  85% of all 18 year olds will have achieved NCEA level 2 or an equivalent qualification in 2017. In 2010, the Ministry of Education introduced its Success for All – Every School, Every Child 2010-2014 policy programme, which sought to achieve a fully inclusive school environment by 2014. The final 2015 evaluative report on Success for All produced by the Education Review Office (“ERO”) indicates that, while the policy’s objective of a fully inclusive educational environment was not reached, some progress has been made. ERO’s 2014 evaluation of a sample of 152 schools found that 78% were “mostly inclusive”, compared to 50% in 2010. http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/pasifika-education/progress_against_pasifika_education_plan_targets 61 Ministry of Education (August, 2015): http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/snapshots-of-nz/nz-socialindicators/Home/Education/18-year-olds-with-higher-qualif.aspx Page 33 of 93 Human Rights Commission submission to the Human Rights Committee in relation to New Zealand’s 6th periodic review under the ICCPR