QA News #60 - June 2008 [ NZQA ]

June 2008 Issue 60

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	Features
•	Chief Executive's foreword
•	Awards celebrate top New Zealand students	•	Agreement signed with Chinese degree verification agency
•	Top Art on tour	•	Random selection of internal assessments starts
•	Kaitiaki Group welcomed	•	Good practice models for Māori and Pasifika PTEs
•	China-NZ FTA positive for education	•	NZQA transfers standard setting to ITOs
•	NZ hosts Chinese delegations	•	Evaluate - a new way to join the QA conversation

NZQA signs agreement with chinese degree verification agency

Chinese students will have more opportunity to have qualifications they have earned at home recognised in New Zealand following the signing of an agreement between NZQA and a specialized agency responsible for verifying degrees in China .

In December NZQA signed a Cooperative Agreement with the Chinese Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Centre (CDGDC), which undertakes verification of degree certificates at all three levels conferred by Chinese educational institutions, and other related educational materials.

The arrangement formalises the relationship between CDGDC and NZQA's Qualifications Recognition Service (QRS) regarding the verification of Chinese qualifications submitted for assessment.

Because there are often difficulties interpreting the qualifications of overseas students, the agreement aims to clarify qualifications recognition to make processing applications more efficient.

Following the agreement any institution or organisation can ask prospective Chinese students to provide verification from the CDGDC (at the student's expense).

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