New Zealand Qualifications Authority
The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) is the New Zealand government department tasked with providing national and international leadership in assessment and qualifications. The NZQA quality assure secondary and tertiary qualifications and education providers, evaluate overseas qualifications and administer the New Zealand Register of Quality Assured Qualifications and the National Qualifications Framework, including the NCEA and the New Zealand Scholarship.
It was established as an amalgam in July 1990 of the former Universities Entrance Board (the old University of New Zealand Entrance Board, responsible for the NZ University Entrance and Entrance Scholarship awards), the Department of Education examination board (responsible for the School Certificate), the Trades Certification Board and the Authority for Advanced Vocational Awards.
Due to the introduction of the NCEA some schools have been moving to the English General Certificate of Secondary Education and the "A"-level General Certificate of Education administered by the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate.
In 2005 the Authority's Chairman and CEO resigned after a State Services Commission into the 2004 NCEA scholarship exams. In the physics exams only 39 out of 1,012 students who sat the exam received a scholarship while in English the result was 228 out of 587. [1]
See also
External links
- New Zealand Qualifications Authority official website