More kiwis head to university, chase post-graduate degrees, census shows

More kiwis head to university, chase post-graduate degrees, census shows
Feb. 4 (BusinessDesk) – More kiwis are gaining tertiary qualifications and despite an OECD survey showing a drop in the educational ranking of New Zealand 15-year-olds, an increasing number of teenagers are completing their school years, the latest census shows. Of some 3 million New Zealanders aged 15 and over surveyed for the 2013 census, the number recording no qualifications fell about 11 percent compared to the 2006 census to 628,377. By contrast, those recording a bachelor degree or Level 7 qualification jumped by 29 percent to 408,44...