1. Pasifika success?!? Well, what did you expect?
Stuart Cambridge, Tertiary Education Commission

2. All New Zealanders are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for lifelong success

3. Lucknow Primary School, 1977

4. Teacher expectations (mean)
What do you expect?
Table 1: Teacher expectations and student achievement in mathematics
Ethnicity
Teacher expectations (mean)
Achievement (mean)
Asian
6.13
4.35
Pākehā
5.28
3.84
Pasifika
5.20
2.74
Māori
4.73
2.61
Other
5.93
4.00
Hana Turner, Christine M. Rubie-Davies & Melinda Webber, Teacher Expectations, Ethnicity and the Achievement Gap, NZ J Educ Stud (2015) 50: [accessed Sep 13, 2017].

5. What do you expect?
“… when I started in this school… one of the [other] teachers actually said to me, ‘These kids, we’re just teaching them for ‘Achieved’ [lowest pass level in NCEA]’. So… they are not expecting their students to do any better. We’re just teaching them for ‘Achieved’. They are not capable of ‘Excellence’.”
“Some teachers just think …‘I’m just a teacher, I’m here to teach. Look, I’ve put the work on the board. Right, that’s it. Now it’s up to you to do the learning’.”
“I have learnt that there are only a certain amount of things you can do…There are some things that are beyond my control… I don’t try and make tall claims like, ‘I want to get everyone to Merit’. I don’t do that… Sometimes, trying to put them under pressure is not very good.”
Hana Turner, Christine M. Rubie-Davies & Melinda Webber, Teacher Expectations, Ethnicity and the Achievement Gap, NZ J Educ Stud (2015) 50: [accessed Sep 13, 2017].

6. By 2030, 30 percent of New Zealanders will be Māori or Pasifika, and as such it is essential that tertiary education improves its delivery to these groups.

7. Pasifika - % learners by level (2007 & 2016)

8. Course completion rates by ethnicity

9. Course completion variance: Pasifika by subsector

10. Course completion variance: Pasifika by level

11. Transition to tertiary education
Students who left Auckland secondary schools between 2009 and 2011
Pasifika
European
NCEA achievement
Tertiary institution
Tertiary achievement
NCEA achievement
Tertiary institution
Tertiary achievement
University 19%
NZQF 7+ 10%
University 47%
NZQF 7+ 38%
Achieved NCEA Level 3 27%
NZQF %
Achieved NCEA Level 3 57%
ITP 24%
NZQF %
NZQF %
PTE 25%
ITP 20%
NZQF 1-3 9%
No qualification 25%
ITO 4%
PTE 13%
No qualification 21%
Wānanga 3%
Did not achieve NCEA Level 3 73%
Did not achieve NCEA Level 3 43%
ITO 2% 9%
325 students
Wānanga 1%
No further study
24%
No further study
13%

12. Pasifika pipeline
Based on the cohort of Pasifika learners who were in Year 11 in 2009 who entered into tertiary education between 2010 and 2016

14. 38th (of 40) 37th (of 37) 35th (of 37) ? HEALTH ADOLESCENT SUICIDE
HEALTH – incl 5 indicators: neonatal mortality, suicide rates (0-19 years), mental health symptoms (11-15 years), drunkeness (11-15 years), teenage fertility rates (15-19 years). We’re better than Bulgaria and Chile! 
ADOLESCENT SUICIDE – years. Rate of 15.5 per 100,000 is more than 2½ times the average (6.1), and more than 9 times higher than the lowest (Portugal)
CHILDHOOD POVERTY – % of children under 18 who live in a household where no one has a job (16% in NZ) ?
35th (of 37)
CHILDHOOD POVERTY

16. are we the problem?

17. Pasifika success… It’s what we expect