Originator/Sponsor: Geoff Taylor, Dairy NZ; Julia Pura-MacKenzie, Ministry of Education; Ben Allomes, Food and Fibre CoVE Board Member
Portfolio Managers: Fiona Windle
Status: In delivery
Planned delivery date: 31 July 2024
Lead Agency / Service Provider: Skills Group
Project Scope:
The project has commenced with an interim data enquiry phase that includes:
- The performance and impact of current approved transitions and pathways programmes, products, and services employed by schools, kura and tertiary providers to encourage secondary students into tertiary studies related to, or work in, the food and fibre sector.
- Outcomes for secondary school ākonga studying horticulture and/or agriculture subjects who subsequently enrol in food and fibre related tertiary studies, or gain work in the food and fibre sector.
- Secondary school ākonga earning wages in the food and fibre sector who subsequently enrol in food and fibre related tertiary studies or gain work in the food and fibre sector.
- Year 11, 12 and 13 secondary school ākonga commencing tertiary studies with a specific focus on food and fibre including total duration of tertiary learning while still at school.
This first phase will inform further deliverables that will focus on policy analysis and a future-forward focussed outlook at opportunities and how current policy and operational settings could be more effectively applied at the secondary to -tertiary to -employment interfaces, in light of the data enquiry findings about effective pathways and successful practices, and in the context of the VET system reforms. The final research report will include specific consideration of Mātauranga Māori elements.
The interim data enquiry report of the Secondary School Transitions and Pathways to VET and Employment Project (April 2024) can be viewed here.
The above information was current as at 30 April 2024