Tertiary education offers a passport to success in modern life. It helps people improve their lives and the lives of those around them. It provides the specific tools for a career, and is the engine of knowledge creation.

Emphasising more effective law rather than more law, this paper provides a perspective from within government that argues for a better appreciation of what is required to ensure that regulation is effective in a New Zealand context.

This report gives insights into employment trends in New Zealand by industry and region, summarises data on labour supply factors and participation, and presents information on indicators of labour supply and demand matching. Summary This report combines the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s labour market monitoring programme with the latest developments in the labour...

Introduction: Analysis of LisNZ data to date has primarily explored skilled principal migrants and their settlement and labour market outcomes. However, the settlement of family members and the labour market outcomes of partners are equally as important to understand. The presence of family members alongside the principal migrant plays an important role in the settlement...

Purpose and key question: This report presents new statistics on the extent to which industry trainees leave and return to New Zealand. For New Zealand industry trainees who completed a qualification in either 2003 or 2004, it examines their migration patterns of the subsequent 7 years post-completion. We are interested in better understanding the extent...