TEC is releasing education performance data today and I’ve put together a table below of qualification completions for TEIs – I’ve left out PTEs and OTEPs only because I haven’t got time to enter all the data, but I’ve added some notes on PTEs below. The measurement is: all qual completions multiplied by EFTS value/total EFTS enrolled in courses.

Qualification completions are not as clear cut as course completions, which I covered earlier today. That is because many students do enrol in a qualification but only intend to complete one or a few courses within that qual. Of course, TEC funds and desires quals, so the stat is important. Many providers also purposely enrol people in courses, knowing they won’t do the whole qual, so that’s a choice that will depress stats.

As with course completions, universities are at the top of this table, filling the first 5 places, as well as 8 and 9. Massey University, however, is down at 17th place, probably reflecting the lower completion rates on extramural qualifications (although I suspect that doesn’t explain the whole difference, as Massey has a lot of face to face students).

The 10 TEIs below 50% deserve some extra scrutiny, but I’m willing to give those ten a little more time to contextualise their situation (and take some time to think about it), as the issues are more complex. The Open Polytechnic has very, very low completion rates, but they’re at the sharp end of the course vs qual enrolment issue. Raukawa and Waiariki are next from the bottom of the list, but that’s probably related to them being on the bottom of the course completion table.

44 PTEs had qualification completion rates below 50%. On the other hand, 19 had 100% and another 20 had 90-99% qualification completion rates.