Community Education

Funds foundational level literacy, numeracy and English language skills for adult learners who have low skills in these areas.

Compulsory student service fee (CSSF)

Tertiary education organisations (TEOs) can charge domestic students a fee to help fund the costs of delivering student services such as health care and recreational activities.

Consortia

A cooperative arrangement among groups or institutions.  We fund TEOs as part of a consortium for Māori and Pasifika Trades Training and ICT Graduate Schools.

Consortium

A cooperative arrangement among groups or institutions.  We fund TEOs as part of a consortium for Māori and Pasifika Trades Training and ICT Graduate Schools.

CoREs

Centres of Research Excellence are inter-institutional networks of researchers working together on a commonly agreed work programme.  Each hosted by a university and comprising several partner organisations including other universities.

Course classification

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.

CoVE

Centre of Vocational Excellence. A group from across a sector that works together to grow excellent vocational provision, and share high-quality curriculum and programme design across the vocational education system.

Credit

One credit represents a notional 10 hours of learning, practice and assessment time with respect to the outcomes and contexts of a standard. One full-time year of study equates to 120 credits or 1 EFTS.