Glossary

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  • Educational Performance Indicator Commitments (EPICs)

    A group of performance indicators that give a view of how well tertiary providers are helping their students to achieve.   They show how many students progress and stay in study, and how many courses and qualifications are completed.

  • EDUMIS

    A unique identifier assigned to each educational body (including TEOs, schools, early childhood centres, etc).  

  • Emergency Management

    The Emergency Management Fund supports volunteers in civil defence emergency management to get the training and accreditation they need to perform emergency management operations.

  • Employer-led Workplace Literacy and Numeracy (EWLN)

    Employer-led Workplace Literacy and Numeracy (EWLN) Fund funding supports the delivery of literacy and numeracy programmes for employees to increase their literacy and numeracy skills, and to contribute to workplace productivity.

  • English Language Teaching (ELT) – Refugee English

    The Refugee English Fund is a component of the English Language Teaching Fund (ELT) (formerly known as the Specialised English for Speakers of Other Languages [ESOL]).The Refugee English Fund supports refugees to reach a level of English that will allow them to enter employment or undertake their choice of vocational or degree-level education.

  • English Language Teaching – Intensive Literacy and Numeracy (ELT – ILN)

    The English Language Teaching – Intensive Literacy and Numeracy (ELT) Fund (formerly Specialised English for Speakers of Other Languages [ESOL]) supports the intensive provision of high quality, fees-free English language literacy and numeracy learning opportunities for adult learners for whom English is a second language. 

  • English NZ

    English New Zealand (English NZ) is a peak body for mainly non-TEC-funded PTEs involved in the provision of English Language training to international learners. It has a five-member Board. Although most members are not TEC-funded this body still attends the quarterly Peak Bodies meetings to engage with officials. 

  • Entrepreneurial Universities

    Entrepreneurial Universities was a competitive fund aimed at attracting world-leading entrepreneurial researchers to build stronger and more relevant links with existing and emerging industries and firms.

  • Equity Funding

    The Government's contribution to help improve access to tertiary education and the achievement of Māori and Pacific learners, and learners with disabilities. It is a "top-up" to DQ1-2 (available only for disabled learners) and DQ7-10 funding.

  • Equivalent full-time student (EFTS)

    One EFTS unit is defined as the learner workload in a single academic year (12-month period) by a learner enrolled full-time. Usually is 120 credits on the New Zealand Qualifications and Credentials Framework (NZQCF).