Vocational Pathways: authentic and relevant learning

Vocational Pathways provide coherent pathways to connect students from school to further education or employment. Vocational Pathways provide structured ways for students to achieve the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA). The pathways identify a range of achievement standards and unit standards that prepare students for ongoing education and/or employment in the industry of their choice. In this report the Education Review Office (ERO) evaluated how well 35 secondary schools were using Vocational Pathways. While most schools knew about and were using the pathways, they were not fully realising the initiative's potential. Vocational Pathways can be a valued part of a school's curriculum for all students when used as more than just an add-on to careers education or course-selection processes. The report gives in-depth examples of how three schools - Forest View High School, Flaxmere College and Hauraki Plains College - are using the pathways to best support their students.

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