Glossary

Specialised English for Speakers of Other Languages

Increases opportunities for adults to learn and improve their literacy and numeracy skills. Particularly for migrants and refugees.

Standard training measure (STM)

An STM is defined as the amount of training that is required for a trainee to achieve 120 credits (or its equivalent) in an approved structured training programme.

STAR

The Secondary Tertiary Alignment Resource (STAR) is administered by MoE and delivers additional operational grant funding to all State and State-Integrated schools with year 11-13+ students to assist schools, in partnership with another provider (or workplace), to provide students alternative learning experiences to support their retention and achievement in education and to help students find suitable pathways to work or further study.

Statement of Intent

A high-level description of our operating intentions and performance expectations over the next three to five years. It provides the base against which we will later report in our Annual Report.

Statement of Performance Expectations

Sets out our reportable class of outputs for the financial year and contains our forecasted financial statements. We prepare this every financial year.

Statement of service performance

Reports that provide primarily non-financial information recording our performance against specified objectives.

STEM

STEM is an acronym referring to the academic disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

STEO

A website (www.steo.govt.nz) managed by the MoE and TEC for providing varied services to TEOs, including submitting the Single Data Return (SDR), accessing the SDR Manual, and managing courses, qualifications and delivery sites on the Course Register and the Qualifications Register.

STM

A Standard Training Measure (STM) is defined as the amount of training that is required for a trainee to achieve 120 credits (or its equivalent) in an approved structured training programme.

Student Achievement Component (SAC)

The SAC is the government funding contribution or subsidy to the costs of teaching and learning and other costs driven by student numbers. The total amount of SAC funding is calculated by multiplying the funding category rate by the number of domestic equivalent full-time students in an organisation’s Investment Plan. It constitutes nearly 70 percent of total government funding to tertiary education institutions through plans.