This section provides information on the link between educational attainment and unemployment, education levels by age, tertiary participation, student loans, and popular subject areas. Use the links below or scroll down the page to view the material. Student Loans Higher qualifications equals lower unemployment. This would seem to indicate that unspecified post-school qualifications are of less value for employment than other qualifications.
Younger generations are more highly educated than ever before.
In fact, the proportion of people with degrees or postgraduate qualifications decreases with age and, inversely, the proportion of people with no qualification increases with age. This educational gap across the ages reflects the general trend towards obtaining more and higher educational qualifications, particularly over the last 20 or so years, during which an emphasis on the importance of higher education in New Zealand has become very apparent in the media and society at large. After 1993, part-time tertiary enrolment levels decreased. In 1998, part-time tertiary enrolments were down to 28.3 per thousand. Since 1993, enrolment levels have fluctuated around the 74 per thousand mark.