Timeframe
2024
Funding
Muka Tangata
COMPASS staff
Natalia Boven
Barry Milne
Collaborators
Muka Tangata
Nichola Shackleton
Description
This project aims to follow a cohort of learners to provide insights into the learning pathways people take, and how this relates to time spent in the food and fibre sector, as well as age and stage of life, using information from ‘provider-based’ and ‘industry training’ learners. It also provides information on which pathways ‘work’, or are more successful, for learners.
More specifically the analysis explores:
- The sequence in which people enrol on and complete qualifications. Do these tend to follow a pattern of increasing NZQF levels? Do people enrol in the same subject area? Do they follow the expected pathways on our qualification maps?
- How does this relate to time spent in the sector? For example, we might expect a person who spends ten or more years working in the sector after leaving school to progress through the qualifications in a more straightforward manner than someone who works in the sector for a short period of time, or intermittently enters and exits the sector or the workforce. This analysis is disaggregated by industry mobility.
- The length of time between study spells: Do people tend to go straight from one qualification to another? Or is there a long period of time between enrolments? Also, how does this relate to people’s ages and stages in life?
- Which pathways ‘work’ and for whom? Are certain pathways more likely to result in positive outcomes for learners, such as higher pay or faster rates of progression?