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Glossary

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  • Pacific strategies

    Strategies relating to improving Pacific educational outcomes.

  • Pasifika

    An umbrella term for a diverse range of peoples from the South Pacific region.  Includes Samoan, Cook Island, Tongan, Niuean, Tokelauan, and Fijian peoples,  or people within New Zealand who have strong family and cultural connections to Pacific Islands.

  • Pathways Awarua

    Part of the suite of national resources we developed to help adult learners strengthen their numeracy, reading and writing competencies.  Awarua is the name of a pattern which is used in rāranga - Māori weaving. In the learning context Awarua reflects the connections that often occur between literacy and numeracy as they “weave” through programmes and courses.

  • Peak body

    An association of organisations of allied interests.  Formed to represent the collective views of its members to government, the community and other bodies.

  • Performance commitments

    The performance commitments as outlined in a tertiary education organisation's (TEO's) Investment Plan or application for funding. If a TEO has been exempted from providing an Investment Plan, this means all minimum requirements as outlined in its funding confirmation letter.

  • Performance monitoring

    The monitoring we carry out for the TEOs we fund.

  • Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF)

    The Performance-Based Research (PBRF) Fund is to increase the quality of research by ensuring that excellent research in the tertiary education sector is encouraged and rewarded. This means assessing the research performance of tertiary education organisations (TEOs) and then funding them on the basis of their performance.

  • Plan

    An Investment Plan. Plan Guidance explains what TEOs’ Investment Plans must contain, and how their Plans will be assessed. Plan Guidance is supported by a Gazette notice setting out the assessment criteria. The investment round requires TEOs to submit their Investment Plans for the TEC to assess and fund. Each Plan includes: Learner Success Plan, Disability Action Plan, Educational Performance Indicator Commitments, and Mix of Provision.

  • Plan content

    The required content of a proposed Plan that the TEC has prescribed and given public notice of in accordance with Schedule 18, clause 6 of the Education and Training Act 2020.

  • Plan criteria

    We use these to assess proposed Plans to determine if they will receive funding approval.  Governed by Section 424 of the Education and Training Act 2020.