New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) The Authority has the following functions:
(a) to oversee the setting of standards for qualifications in secondary schools and in post-school education and training:
(b) to monitor and regularly review, and advise the Minister on, the standards for qualifications in secondary schools and in post-school education and training, either generally or in relation to a particular institution or private training establishment or a particular course of study or training:
(c) to develop a framework for national qualifications in secondary schools and in post-school education and training in which—
(i) all qualifications have a purpose and a relationship to each other that students and the public can understand; and
(ii) there is a flexible system for the gaining of qualifications, with recognition of competency already achieved:
(ca) subject to subsection (2), to establish policies and criteria for the registration of private training establishments:
(d) subject to subsection (2), to establish policies and criteria for the approval of courses of study and training at institutions and private training establishments:
(e) subject to subsection (2), to establish policies and criteria that will enable institutions, secondary schools, and private training establishments to be granted accreditation to provide courses of study and training:
(ea) to establish policies and criteria relating to the quality assurance of providers of adult and community education:
(f) to ensure there are mechanisms in place to guarantee that different institutions, secondary schools, or private training establishments providing approved nationally recognised courses have assessment procedures that are fair, equitable, consistent, and in keeping with the required standard:
(g) to assist overseas governments, and agencies of those governments, by—
(i) conducting examinations and assessments:
(ii) approving programmes and courses of study:
(iii) accrediting providers to deliver programmes and courses of study:
(iv) assisting governments and agencies to develop and conduct examinations, and to develop and confer awards:
(h) to maintain effective liaison with overseas certifying and validating bodies, in order to recognise overseas educational and vocational qualifications in New Zealand and to achieve recognition of New Zealand educational and vocational qualifications overseas:
(i) to ensure that post-school educational and vocational qualifications maintain international comparability:
(j) to promote and monitor inter-institutional course approval and moderation procedures:
(k) such other functions as are conferred on it by this Act or any other enactment:
(l) to consult such persons, authorities, and bodies as it considers appropriate for the purposes of the performance of any of its functions.
(2) Before establishing policies or criteria under subsection (1)(ca), (d), (e), or (ea) in respect of a class of institutions, the Authority shall—
(a) in the case of criteria or policies in respect of universities, consult the Vice-Chancellors Committee; and
(ab) in the case of criteria or policies in respect of bodies that are providing adult and community education, consult—
(i) those bodies; or
(ii) a body that represents the interests of those bodies; and
(b) in the case of criteria or policies in respect of any other class of institutions in respect of which there is a body that has the function of setting up course approval and moderation procedures, consult that body;—
and may consult such other bodies as the Authority considers appropriate.
(3) The Authority shall cause the criteria established pursuant to subsection (1)(ca), (d), (e), and (ea) to be published in the Gazette.
Section 253: added, on 23 July 1990, by section 42 of the Education Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 60).
Section 253(1)(c)(i): amended, on 19 December 1998, by section 45(2) of the Education Amendment Act (No 2) 1998 (1998 No 118).
Section 253(1)(ca): inserted, on 1 January 2003, by section 33(1) of the Education (Tertiary Reform) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 50).
Section 253(1)(e): amended, on 25 October 2001, by section 51(1) of the Education Standards Act 2001 (2001 No 88).
Section 253(1)(ea): inserted, on 1 January 2008, by section 35(1) of the Education (Tertiary Reforms) Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 106).
Section 253(1)(f): amended, on 25 October 2001, by section 51(2) of the Education Standards Act 2001 (2001 No 88).
Section 253(1)(g): substituted on 25 October 2001, by section 51(3) of the Education Standards Act 2001 (2001 No 88).
Section 253(2): amended, on 1 January 2008, by section 35(2) of the Education (Tertiary Reforms) Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 106).
Section 253(2): amended, on 1 January 2003, by section 33(2) of the Education (Tertiary Reform) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 50).
Section 253(2)(ab): inserted, on 1 January 2008, by section 35(3) of the Education (Tertiary Reforms) Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 106).
Section 253(3): amended, on 1 January 2008, by section 35(4) of the Education (Tertiary Reforms) Amendment Act 2007 (2007 No 106).
Section 253(3): amended, on 1 January 2003, by section 33(3) of the Education (Tertiary Reform) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 50).