Explaining ethnic disparities in bachelor’s qualifications: participation, retention and completion in New Zealand

Explaining ethnic disparities in bachelor’s qualif…
01 Feb 2017
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There are substantial ethnic gaps in higher education in NZ, despite more than a decade of considerable policy effort aimed at this concern. This study uses newly linked administrative data to examine the underachievement of Māori and Pasifika relative to Europeans. We follow a population cohort born between 1990 and 1994 from school through to young adulthood to assess the relative contributions of prior academic performance, socioeconomic status and parental education to these gaps.

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