Glossary
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Centres of Asia-Pacific Excellence (CAPEs)
A collaboration between tertiary education providers and stakeholders to enhance our partnerships with the Asia-Pacific region. CAPEs are cross-institutional centres of excellence, in the language, culture, politics and economics of countries or groups of countries within the Asia-Pacific region.
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Centres of Research Excellence (CoREs)
Networks of researchers working together. Each CoRE is hosted by a university. Partner organisations include other universities, Crown research institutes and wānanga.
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Code of Good Practice for New Zealand Apprenticeships
Sets out the responsibilities and expectations of all parties involved in a New Zealand Apprenticeship: the apprentice, the employer and the tertiary education organisation.
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Cohort
A group of people who share common characteristics or experiences within a defined timespan. May be characteristic-based (eg, ethnicity, gender); event-based (eg, left school, enrolled in tertiary education); or both (eg, Māori students who left school in 2023).
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Cohort-based qualification completion rate
The cohort-based qualification completion rate measures how many learners in a starting cohort go on to complete a qualification at the same level after a given amount of time.
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Commitments
A template used in the Workspace 2 online data platform. It collects a tertiary education organisation's (TEO's) mix of provision (MoP) or Educational Performance Indicator Commitments (EPICs) as part of the Investment Plan process.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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CoREs
Centres of Research Excellence are inter-institutional networks of researchers working together on a commonly agreed work programme. Each is hosted by a university and comprises several partner organisations including other universities.