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Glossary

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  • Conditions

    The Funding Conditions that apply to tertiary education organisation (TEO) funding, including any statutory Funding Conditions set out in the Education and Training Act.

  • Consortium/consortia

    A cooperative arrangement among groups or institutions. We fund tertiary education organisations as part of a consortium for Māori and Pasifika Trades Training and Employment-led Workplace Literacy and Numeracy Funds. 

  • Course completion

    Where a student meets the academic requirements of a course (ie, a pass). May also refer to an unsuccessful course completion (ie, a fail). Different from a withdrawal, where a student does not complete the course.

  • Course completion rate

    The successfully completed enrolments in courses at a TEO each year, as a proportion of the total enrolments in courses, weighted by the EFTS value of the enrolments.

  • Credit

    A credit measures the average amount of learning that is required to complete the qualification or part of the qualification. One full-time year of study equates to 120 credits or 1 EFTS.

  • CSV

    Comma-separated values (CSV) files are a simple file format used to store tabular data, like a spreadsheet or a database.

  • Data accuracy

    One of the components of data quality. It refers to whether the data values stored for an object are the correct values.  A correct data value must be the right value and must be represented in a consistent and unambiguous form.

  • Data Specifications for Single Data Return

    The document for TEOs and Student Management System developers that sets out the specifications of the Ministry of Education and TEC data requirements for the Single Data Returns (SDRs) for each academic year.

  • Delivery

    The provision of education by a TEO.

  • Delivery classification

    Delivery classifications are the coding system we use to group courses by subject matter for funding and reporting purposes. TEOs must accurately assign a delivery classification to each course within a programme or micro-credential that they deliver. Delivery classifications have two parts: a number and a title.