Glossary

Pasifika

An umbrella term for a diverse range of peoples from the South Pacific region. Includes Samoan, Cook Island, Tongan, Niuean, Tokelauan, and Fijian peoples, or people within New Zealand who have strong family and cultural connections to Pacific Islands.

Pasifika perspectives

Pasifika cultural beliefs and world views.

Pasifika strategies

Strategies relating to improving Pasifika educational outcomes.

Pathways Awarua

Part of the suite of national resources we developed to help adult learners strengthen their numeracy, reading and writing competencies. Awarua is the name of a pattern which is used in rāranga - Māori weaving. In the learning context Awarua reflects the connections that often occur between literacy and numeracy as they “weave” through programmes and courses.

PBRF

Performance-Based Research Fund. This appropriate is limited to funding research-based teaching on the basis of measured research quality in tertiary education organisations.

Peak body

An association of organisations of allied interests. Formed to represent the collective views of its members to government, the community and other bodies.

PELT

PELT is Pre-purchased English Language Tuition, previously known as English for Migrants. This programme enables migrants to participate in English language courses, helping them settle into communities and work. Some migrants are required to pre-pay English Language Tuition (PELT) fees to Immigration New Zealand before arriving in New Zealand. We administer this pre-purchased tuition.

Performance Consequences Framework

The Performance Consequences Framework is a process that assists TEC to define performance expectations and manage individual tertiary education organisation (TEO) performance. It also ensures confidence in our decisions about how we manage differing levels of performance.

Performance Improvement Framework

A review of an agency's fitness-for-purpose. It looks at the current state of an agency, then how well placed it is to deal with the issues that confront it in the medium-term future.

Performance indicator

A performance indicator is agreed between the TEC and an individual TEO and is used to measure whether proposed outcomes are being achieved.