This post follows up from a post on university over-delivery in 2009 yesterday – that post explains the context. The short version is that providers are supposed to be in the 97-103% range, if 100% is their funding allocation.

The wananga sector performed pretty much spot-on, with their enrolments being worth 100.3% of their funding allocation. With only 3 wananga, however, a sector comparison can be a bit meaningless. That comparison is made even more meaningless since Te Wananga o Aotearoa is by far the largest of the 3 wananga, with 84% of enrolments, which is why their delivery level is about the same as the average. Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi is 1.2% over their upper limit and could face sanctions from the TEC (as could 5 universities), but it probably won’t. Te Wananga o Raukawa, however, will probably lose funding as a result of their 93.2% performance - a provider can get their full funding if they only meet 97% of their allocation, but below that level they will probably have money clawed back. The final result will be a matter of negotiation, and negotiations will have been going on for some time, as this trend would have been apparent back in 2009. Many ITPs had money clawed back in 2008, and this was used to fund extra provision in 2010.

Tomorrow we’ll cover Other Tertiary Education Providers (OTEPs). Over/Under Delivery percentage is derived from data supplied by the TEC.