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.
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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