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    Centres of Asia-Pacific Excellence (CAPEs)

    A collaboration between tertiary education providers and stakeholders to enhance our partnerships with the Asia-Pacific region. CAPEs are cross-institutional centres of excellence, in the language, culture, politics and economics of countries or groups of countries within the Asia-Pacific region.

    Centres of Research Excellence (CoREs)

    Networks of researchers working together.  Each CoRE is hosted by a university.   Partner organisations include other universities, Crown research institutes and wānanga.

    Code of Good Practice for New Zealand Apprenticeships

    Sets out the responsibilities and expectations of all parties involved in a New Zealand Apprenticeship: the apprentice, the employer and the industry training organisation.                                                                                    

    Cohort

    A group of people who share common characteristics or experiences within a defined timespan. May be characteristic-based (eg, ethnicity, gender); event-based (eg, left school, enrolled in tertiary education); or both (eg, Māori students who left school in 2023).

    Cohort-based qualification completion rate

    The cohort-based qualification completion rate measures how many learners in a starting cohort go on to complete a qualification at the same level after a given amount of time.

    Commitments

    A template used in the Workspace 2 online data platform. It collects a tertiary education organisation's (TEO's) mix of provision (MoP) or Educational Performance Indicator Commitments (EPICs) as part of the Investment Plan process.

    Compulsory student service fee (CSSF)

    Tertiary education organisations (TEOs) can charge domestic students a fee to help fund the costs of delivering student services such as health care and recreational activities.

    Consortia

    A cooperative arrangement among groups or institutions.  We fund TEOs as part of a consortium for Māori and Pasifika Trades Training and ICT Graduate Schools.

    Consortium

    A cooperative arrangement among groups or institutions.  We fund TEOs as part of a consortium for Māori and Pasifika Trades Training and ICT Graduate Schools.

    CoREs

    Centres of Research Excellence are inter-institutional networks of researchers working together on a commonly agreed work programme.  Each hosted by a university and comprising several partner organisations including other universities.