Pacific learner success in workplace settings

The Pasifika Learner Success in Workplace Settings project aims to better understand the links between interventions and retention, completion and higher achievement for Pasifika learners in workplace settings. The project is a partnership between four [industry training organisations] ITOs, ServiceIQ, The Skills Organisation, Careerforce, and Competenz, and Pasifika Perspectives Limited and is supported by Ako Aotearoa. The project aims to identify critical success factors and effective models for Pasifika learners, including those generally applicable to industry training, and specific to the training models of ITOs.

The project aims to answer the following questions: What are the critical success factors for Pasifika learners in industry training? What interventions focusing on these factors can ITOs put in place to support achievement? How successful are these interventions at supporting achievement for Pasifika learners? The findings of this study highlight that there are many positive 'take-outs' from these relatively short and discrete programmes. Reports from learners and facilitators alike conveyed an optimism about continuing to progress in their training and completing their qualifications. Ongoing monitoring of this cohort and collection of course and qualification completion data will enable a more in-depth analysis of these outcomes.

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