NZQA's Strategic Direction
Priority 2: The New Zealand Register of Quality Assured Qualifications and the National Qualifications Framework are more useful and more easily understood by learners, employers and providers.
Key actions and initiatives:
Working with the education agencies, tertiary education providers, ITOs and their peak bodies to further develop the Register and the NQF to meet the needs of learners, businesses and industry by:
- examining the way credits are allocated to qualifications and standards
- assessing areas of overlapping qualifications to develop and agree the mechanisms to resolve unnecessary duplications
- streamlining NZQA processes for qualification approvals and facilitating the sharing of best-practice qualification development, maintenance and review processes.
Expected results:
- An assessment of the credit system and a recommended course of action are submitted to the Minister of Education by 31 January 2010
- An assessment of the NQF, the Register, the associated levers and accountabilities of different agencies, and a recommended course of action, are submitted to the Minister of Education by 31 January 2010
- Mechanisms are determined to reduce existing unnecessary duplications within the Register by the end of 2010
- The cost and time to market for education and training providers are reduced through a reduction in qualification approval standard timeframes by 20 per cent by 2011 with an interim measure of 10 per cent by 2010.
Page updated: 02 December 2008