IPS WP 08/05: Gender and tertiary education enrolments and completions: An overview of trends 1994-2006
This working paper provides a broad overview of trends in tertiary education enrolments and completions for women and men from 1994 to 2006. In measuring differences in outcomes between women and men in education, both participation and performance are important. Enrolments are a measure of participation and completions are a basic, but important, measure of performance. The data are drawn from the Ministry of Education’s database on enrolments and completions. While gender is the key variable considered, ethnicity, age, level of study, main areas of study, whether the study was full time or part time and type of institution are all considered. The paper also includes some basic education outcome data from the 2006 census of population and dwellings.
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Published in May 2008
