Glossary
Kuputaka
Student progression
Measured by the completion progression rate. This is a rate of re-enrolment in a higher-level qualification in the following year for students who have completed a qualification.
Student retention
Measured by the student completion (or continuation) rate. This is the number of re-enrolments or qualification completions at a TEO each year compared with the number of students present at the TEO in the previous year.
StudyLink
A division of the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) which administers Student Allowances, Student Loans and Jobseeker Support Student Hardship for people undertaking study.
Supplementary Credit Programme
A Supplementary Credit Programme (SCP) is a programme that allows trainees who have already completed a national qualification to undertake additional unit standards to upgrade or widen their existing qualifications without being required to re-sign into a full qualification.
Targeted Training and Apprenticeship Fund (TTAF)
The Targeted Training and Apprenticeship Fund (also known as free trades training) supported learners to undertake vocational education and training without fees from 1 July 2020 until 31 December 2022.
Tauira
Learner/student.
Te Amorangi Mātauranga Matua
Tertiary Education Commission
Te Ao Hurihuri
The ever-changing contemporary world. References the need to be able to enjoy tertiary success, good health and a high quality of life.
Te Ao Māori
The Māori world (society, culture, language, tikanga) and references being able to participate and contribute to whānau, hapū and iwi.
Te Kāhui Amokura
A group established to advance and promote the collective interests of New Zealand's universities to improve outcomes for Māori university students, Māori university staff, and Māori scholarship