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the following headings:
Legislative requirements
S1—The quality assurance body applies its legislated responsibilities, in particular
the requirements of the Education Act 1989.
Quality management system
S2—The quality assurance body’s governance and management are appropriate to
its delegated functions and responsibilities.
S3—The quality assurance body has a quality management system in place that
enables it to perform its delegated quality assurance function.
S4 —The quality assurance body has the professional capability to effectively
perform delegated functions and responsibilities.
S5—The quality assurance body has appropriate and effective complaints and
appeals procedures.
Quality assurance functions
S6—The quality assurance body performs its registration functions effectively and
in accordance with legislative requirements (this applies solely to the New Zealand
Qualifications Authority).
S7—The quality assurance body effectively performs course approval functions in
accordance with legislative requirements.
S8—The quality assurance body effectively accredits organisations to deliver
approved courses and National Qualifications Framework qualifications within the
scope of its delegation.
S9—The quality assurance body has appropriate quality assurance processes in place
to assure and maintain ongoing quality.
Accrediting
bodies
Accrediting bodies are responsible for the approval of courses and the accreditation
of organisations to deliver them irrespective of whether they lead to a national
qualification or not. They are also responsible for the accreditation of organisations
to assess unit standards on the National Qualifications Framework.
The Audit Standard for inter-institutional quality assurance bodies with delegation
from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority sets out the expected standards for
the authority’s quality assurance functions as well as for those functions delegated to
other quality assurance bodies.. See above for details of this standard.
Supporting resources include:
• Gazetted criteria for course approval and accreditation
• The New Zealand Register of quality assured qualifications
• Criteria, requirements and guidelines for course approval and
accreditation
• Gazetted national qualifications framework accreditation criteria
• National qualifications framework accreditation and moderation action
plans.
Training
organisations
Registration
Private training organisations are required to be registered as private training
establishments if they wish to receive government funding or to enrol international
students. Quality Assurance Standard One (QAS1) consists of policies and criteria
that the New Zealand Qualifications Agency has established for the registration of
private training establishments (available at
www.nzqa.govt.nz/for-providers/qastandards/docs/qastd1.pdf)
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