QA News content index
QA News is published to provide information about the National Qualifications Framework and other NZQA services.
- Issue 65 September 2009
- Chief Executive's foreword
- Client Charter sets service standards
- NZQA has new Auckland office
- Alignment of standards review continues
- PPTA welcomes new "reassessment" rules
- NCEA island-style
- Hui Mana Tohu Mātauranga
- New quality mark for assessment materials
- Preparing for external evaluation and review
- Project management qualifications for the global economy
- Management standards reclassified
- Targeted review of the qualifications system
- International recognition of New Zealand qualifications
- New NCEA brochures available
- Issue 64 June 2009
- Chief Executive's foreword
- Awards celebrate top New Zealand students
- New stats pages online
- School leavers sent new results document
- Kahui: a model of working together
- Samoan moderation fono
- Introducing Daryn Bean - Chief Advisor Maori
- Play It Strange brings music standards to young performers
- Implementing the evaluative approach to quality assurance
- Highly skilled and highly qualified Pasifika people
- Engineering a future
- Qualifications frameworks provide worldwide links
- Top Art on tour
- Issue 63 March 2009
- Chief Executive's foreword
- Hon Anne Tolley - Minister of Education
- Secondary school statistics re-designed
- Release of results goes smoothly
- Secondary circulars online
- More moderation workshops planned
- Positive response to trial
- Introducing Tim Fowler
- Benefits to standards review extension
- Further Assessment guidelines out for consultation
- Pasifika cultures reflected in new standards
- Research news
- Diploma supplement for students?
- Kapa Haka more than just a performance
- Issue 62 December 2008
- Chief Executive's foreword
- Qualifications help Māori economy
- Pasifika culture important for PTI
- New journalism course
- Revised standards
- Changes to the NZ Scholarship list
- NCEA is working - SPANZ President
- New business qualification registered
- ITOs working together
- Stakeholders: NZQA Research needs You!
- The NZQA Research team
- NZQA delivers a paper of comparisions
- Tertiary workshops assist development of self-assessment
- Issue 61 September 2008
- Chief Executive's foreword
- Brunei Visit
- NZQA welcomes new board member
- Standards Review underway
- Learning from Maori and Pasifika PTE research
- Students motivated by certificate endorsement
- Subject specific resources
- End-of-year surveys
- Moving towards self-assessment
- QAD conference
- Maori Economic Growth
- Dr Monte Ohia
- Bright SPARQ
- Issue 60 June 2008
- Chief Executive's foreword
- Awards celebrate top New Zealand students
- Top Art on tour
- Kaitiaki Group welcomed
- China-NZ FTA positive for education
- NZ hosts Chinese delegations
- Agreement signed with Chinese degree verification agency
- Random selection of internal assessments starts
- Good practice models for Māori and Pasifika PTEs
- NZQA transfers standard setting to ITOs
- Evaluate - a new way to join the QA conversation
- Issue 59 March 2008
- Chief Executive's foreword
- New look NCEA Certificate
- More exemplars available on web
- Full-time moderators on the job
- Reporting Not achieved for internally assessed standards
- Web users have their say
- Certificate endorsement proves popular
- Endorsements a motivator in NCEA - survey
- Hot topics at schools seminars
- Online statistics updated
- EAG releases keenly awaited tertiary report
- Issue 58 December 2007
- Chief Executive's foreword
- New appointments to NZQA Board
- New system for delivery of exam papers
- Annual Report highlights
- Pasifika Strategy for NZQA
- Information workshops for Pasifika communities
- NZQA supports Pasifika launches
- Expert provides evaluation advice
- Teachers embracing new assessment practices
- Project success celebrated at NZQA
- Drive to improve records management
- NZQA hosts international delegations
- Translations of parents guide available
- Issue 57 September 2007
- Chief Executive's foreword
- Certificate endorsement already motivating
- NZQA reviews direction, goals
- Views sought on Māori education
- NZQA Māori reference groups
- Ka Hikitia - Managing for Success
- Full-time moderators to join NZQA
- New Qualifications managers for secondary
- Te Wānanga o Raukawa Audit breaks new ground
- Meeting customer needs on-line
- Assessment study among NZQA research projects
- Tertiary reforms: evaluating what matters most
- New Secondary and Tertiary brochures available
- Exam season bigger than ever
- Issue 56 June 2007
- Chief Executive's foreword
- NCEA enhancements announced
- New-look Record of Learning
- NZQA provides checks for migrant students
- Otumoetai College backs flexibility of NQF
- Values-based kura points students in the right direction
- Statistics on the website
- Pasifika communities kept informed about NCEA
- Tertiary reforms spearhead a new way of thinking about quality
- Quality Assurance conference expands
- Top Art tours the country
- Issue 55 March 2007
- Chief Executive's foreword
- Te Rautaki Māori ā te Mana Tohu Mātauranga
- Foundation Learning given a boost
- Education Dean joins NZQA Board
- New Pacific Islands Early Childhood Education qualification
- First Line Management standards reviewed
- Qualifications Register updated
- China supports NZ PTEs
- Kapiti Skills offers pathways to learning
- Northland College students build a future
- Research papers on the website
- Action Research in the classroom
- Release of results huge logistical exercise
- Issue 54 December 2006
- Chief Executive's foreword
- New-look Record of Learning and Result Notice
- Exam process a huge exercise
- Profiles of Expected Performance – forecasts, not targets
- Exam surveys out for response
- Waiting for your exam results?
- ITOs briefed on audit
- Qualifications Division has new management team
- Quality Assurance seminars attract hundreds
- Issue 53 October 2006
- Chief Executive's Foreword
- New-look Record of learning attracts interest
- Field business update
- Strategic Management Team
- NZQA Board
- NQF and NCEA encourage flexibility
- College thinks outside the square
- New plan to engage Māori
- Dance now a university entrance subject
- Tertiary Teaching Excellance Awards
- Celebrating the tall poppies
- Harnessing the power of emails
- Updated brochures
- Taking NCEA off shore
- Unit standards for key competencies
- Top Art tours the country
- Issue 52 April 2006
- Acting Chief Executive's Foreword
- New Board Chair appointed
- Qualifications Authority Chief Executive announced
- Qualifications Authority exam wrap up
- Postcard from NZQA
- More than 1,800 students awarded Scholarships in 2005
- Toward a Māori Strategic Framework for NZQA - community consultation underway
- The art of marking art
- Enhanced www.nzqa.govt.nz
- Ashburton College goes to work
- MOU signed between NZQA and Cook Islands Government
- Changes to fees for PTE's
- Learning for Living
- Review of gazetted criteria for course approval and accreditation
- Issue 51 September 2005
- Acting Chief Executive's Foreword
- Scholarship update
- Scholarship Advisory Groups set up
- NZQA commits to change
- Education sector agencies to work more closely together
- Respected educator and public servant appointed to NZQA
- Managing variability
- NZQA creates Māori Reference Group
- Stargazing earns NCEA credits
- Best of the best - student art on tour
- Top tertiary teachers honoured
- Train training - new qualifications for railway industry
- High level of interest in AAA Workshops
- Issue 50 April 2005
- Chief Executive's Foreword
- Update on reviews at NZQA
- NZQA service changes its name
- Taking care of international business
- Taking on the world from Southland
- Focus on Pasifika education
- New Chief Adviser Māori appointed
- New Quality Assurance Standard for ITOs
- Advertising campaign for Asian visitors
- www.edCentre.govt.nz - A new gateway to education information
- Quality assurance arrangements for providers of Adult and Community Education (ACE)
- Issue 49 January 2005
- Chief Executive's Foreword
- 2004 exams a logistical milestone
- Private training establishment information goes online
- Two new appointments to the NZQA Board
- New organisational structure for NZQA
- Call for nominations for the 2005 Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards
- New National Diploma in Teaching (Early Childhood Education Pasifika)
- NZQA Christmas card artist
- NCEA in the news
- Issue 48 August 2004
- Chief Executive's Foreword
- Top Art exhibition
- One million learners, three million credits – milestones for the National Qualifications Framework
- New policy on reporting results
- Update on ACE quality assurance project
- Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards
- Revised student fee protection policy
- Information for Employers on NQF, NCEA
- Applications for Australian tertiary institutions
- Register becoming established resource
- Final Top Scholars Award
- NCEA in the news
- Issue 47 April 2004
- Chief Executive's Foreword
- Schools get 'excellence' from ERO for NCEA implementation
- University Entrance 2005
- New-look NCEA web pages
- Postcards from Aotearoa - new national qualification in Tourism Māori
- The sky's the limit - Queenstown based company sets up internal training scheme
- New Zealand Schooling Strategy
- Just another brick in the wall - building up an NCEA at Forest View High School
- National Certificate in Electronics Technology earns support beyond the classroom
- Register becoming established resource
- Quality assurance arrangements for adult and community education providers
- Issue 46 December 2003
- Chief Executive's Foreword
- Providing quality education for international students
- International benchmarking project underway for NCEA
- Overseas delegations eager to learn about NZQA
- Vagahau Niue - Niue language on the NQF
- International students to get greater protection
- Queen's High School: a multi-faceted approach to food, clothing and hospitality
- New brochures and online developments
- New NZQA board members announced
- Te Ngutu Awa - the new Māori qualification
- Outdoor Excellence Award for Nelson-based Outdoor Pursuits Centres
- NCEA in the news
- Issue 45 September 2003
- Chief Executive's Foreword
- KiwiQuals: It's a choice thing
- New-look NZQA website
- Future foresters
- Epsom Girls Grammar - embracing NCEA
- New National Qualifications Framework Certificates and Records of Learning
- New lease of life for Pasifika Centre
- Top marks for inmates
- David Moloney: a passion for change
- Otago pathologist collects Supreme Award
- Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award winners
- In the news
- Issue 44 February 2003
- Chief Executive's Foreword
- Catching up to King's
- Stones and light - Top Art sculpture
- New Māori media qualifications
- Hitch-free NCEA examinations
- National Certificates for school students
- New beginnings in Botswana
- Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards booklet
- Working together for results
- First Line Management at Cadbury's
- Pacific Island PTE support
- A good yarn
- Formal provider complaints
- Gateway programme expands
- In the news
- Issue 43 November 2002
- Features
- Chief Executive's Foreword
- Sixth form qualification arrangements for next year
- New Zealand universities endorse NCEA
- Nelson College reaping rewards of preparation
- School leavers gaining NCEA level 2 this year NCEA in Otahuhu
- Students speak out on NCEA
- Environmental course highlights NCEA flexibility
- NZQA initiates greater support for NCEA in schools
- Assessments at the National Kapa Haka Festival
- NCEA accepted by local and overseas universities
- Assessment and moderation case studies
- Framework prioritisation and Register projects
- Heinz Wattie's Hastings staff graduate and grow
- NMIT goes organic
- Government workplace trainees target
- Brochures available from NZQA
- Issue 42 July 2002
- Chief Executive's Foreword
- NCEA and employers - information campaign to be launched
- Working towards credit recognition and transfer
- Top tertiary teachers announced at award ceremony
- Top art goes on tour
- NCEA at work in a science classroom
- Secondary and Tertiary Groups outline
- Reader Survey
- Issue 41 June 2002
- Chief Executive's Foreword
- Boosting our quality service
- Interpreting NCEA results
- Forty-four nominations for Tertiary Teaching Awards
- Boost for Pacific Island education
- New NCEA brochures for schools and students
- New poster campaign for ITOs, providers and workplaces - order a free set now!
- Learners gain access to Records of Learning on-line
- the new Schools Liaison team
- Glazing a trail
- Glass class
- In the News
- New Qualifications on the Framework
- Net results
- Issue 40 April 2002
- Chief Executive's Foreword
- Removing boundaries and barriers in education
- Māori learners in industry training
- Second learners in industry training
- NZQA and Māori PTEs
- Top Māori scholars announced
- Issue 39 November 2001
- School Certificate
- The final exam
- From School to Work
- NCEA Update
- The NZ Register of Quality Assured Qualifications
- Stories
- Issue 38 June 2001
- A vital element in the knowledge society
- Information campaign lifts off
- Brochure introduces NCEA
- NCEA - Removing the barriers
- Where did NCEA come from?
- David Lythe - a career in education
- Stories
- Issue 37 May 2001
- World-class quality and strategic desirability
- Keeping the Framework alive and relevant
- Leading the world in exam systems
- On a roll - NCEA
- Turning around an avalanche of applications
- Stories
- Issue 36 February 2001
- Students log on to the Web
- Quality audits seen as world class
- Register on track for 2001
- Renewed commitment to Māori services
- New Māori voice on NZQA Board
- NCEA communications —delivering the facts
- Stories
- Issue 35 October 2000
- Ten Years On
- Anniversary marks a new era for New Zealand Qualifications Authority
- A new wave
- Technology to tame paper tiger
- Standards bring national recognition for learners
- Workplace learning comes of age
- Breaking new ground
- Increasing demand for quality
- Attention to quality top achievement
- Issue 34 August 2000
- What is the NCEA?
- 531,816 New Zealanders registered on the NQF
- The Framework now plays a significant role in NZ
- 40,227 learners have completed National Certificates or National Diplomas
- What about the registered learners who have not completed Framework qualifications?
- What is the National Qualifications Framework?
- National Certificates most frequently gained to 1999
- Māori and the Framework
- The Framework and Industry
- National Certificates in the News
- Quality Assurers Meet
- The Framework in Schools
- At last - Framework Credits from Prior Learning
- NQF Statistics
- Issue 33 April 2000
- New Directions for 2000-2001
- From the Chief Executive
- Projects for 2000-2001 announced
- First Steps
- NZQA's Role
- Framework Learners Approach Half Million
- National Certificates in the News
- Tikanga and Whenua on the NZQF
- The Framework must get through!
- Learning and Assessment on Demand
- Top Scholars from 1999 announced
- Phone Results a Success
- Greetings from the Waikato
- Testing Times in East Timor
- Issue 32 October 1999
- Quality Assurance onQ
- Correction - Chrysalis College of Early Childhood Education
- New Chief Executive for Qualifications Authority
- Thumbs up from Schools in the know
- From the ITOs
- National Certificates Alive and Well in Schools
- Call Centre Qualifications
- Māori and National Certificates
- Wellington Stadium Staff on the Framework
- New National Certificates and National Diplomas
- In the News - National Certificates
- Internationally
- New Faces on the Board
- Policies in Print
- Examination Results & Rewards
- Issue 31 June 1999
- National Certificates on the job
- National Certificates at school
- Examination news
- APNZ advocates neutral ownership of national qualifications
- Tauranga Training Rocks
- Inside NZQA
- The Framework
- Paula Newton, trainer
- From the ITOs
- New management arrangements for NZQA
- ECE Teacher Training Update
- Y2K OK AT NZQA
- Evaluating Overseas Qualifications
- What does NZQA do?
- Issue 30 March 1999
- Late News
- Quality Assured
- Exam results out early again
- Reo Māori Schools Trial
- From the ITOs
- Moving on Projects simplify workplace assessment
- The complete works
- Qualifications that Work Raising the profile of National Certificates and National Diplomas
- Decisions Decisions
- What is a private training establishment?
- Bursaries Top Scholars Announced
- The 1998 Bursaries Top Scholars
- Do it - and be recognised
- In Moderation Assessment Review
- Inside stories News about what's happening inside the Qualifications Authority
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