The Resource Centre contains practical material about good teaching and learning in the tertiary sector. The Resources can come from the Communities and Project Groups on the site. The Resources are high-quality, well-presented, evidence-based, and relevant to New Zealand.
Supporting Learners includes support services for learners, pastoral care, organisational responsiveness and culture, and student engagement.
This paper explores the variables that may influence persistence or dropout of students at the Open Polytechnic. These include socio-demographic variables such as age, gender, ethnicity, education, work status, and disability as well as variables related to the study environment such as course faculty.
This Ministry of Education analysis builds on previous studies on Modern Apprenticeships and industry training using each programme’s administrative dataset to determine if Modern Apprenticeship’s additional supports and structures are effective tools to ensure engagement and achievement in formalised industry training programmes for younger people.
This report comprises summations and brief case descriptions of some of the effective programmes and other support mechanisms that New Zealand Tertiary Learning Advisors (TLAs) provide for students in universities, polytechnics, institutes of technology, and other tertiary institutions.
Guidance to support higher education institutions (HEIs) to strategically develop more effective mechanisms to further the involvement of disabled students, not only in the development of disability equality schemes, but also in the implementation of those schemes and in the wider development of an ongoing institutional culture towards disability equality.