Reporting successful completion of a New Zealand Certificate
How National Certificates are different
A key difference between National Certificates and New Zealand qualifications is that students must be undertaking an approved programme, which is designed to lead to the graduate outcome in the qualification.
This means that a New Zealand Certificate cannot be awarded solely on the basis of a student having achieved particular standards (as it could for National Certificates). The student must have undertaken an approved programme.
Schools need to report completion
Schools with programme accreditation must report the successful completion of a New Zealand Certificate to NZQA. The school is the awarding body.
Reporting the achievement to NZQA will enable NZQA to issue the certificate to the student and to maintain the student's New Zealand Record of Achievement.
How to report completion Schools will need to:
enrol their students in the normal way, through the submission of student enrolment data in a data file to NZQA by 1 December each yearemail NZQA a spreadsheet of students and certificate completions by 8 December each year.New Zealand Qualifications template for schools [XLSX, 9 KB]
Email the Schools Quality Assurance and Support team - Schoolsupport@nzqa.govt.nz
NZQA will verify that any standards-based New Zealand Certificate has been correctly awarded.
A key difference between National Certificates and New Zealand qualifications is that students must be undertaking an approved programme, which is designed to lead to the graduate outcome in the qualification.
This means that a New Zealand Certificate cannot be awarded solely on the basis of a student having achieved particular standards (as it could for National Certificates). The student must have undertaken an approved programme.
Schools need to report completion
Schools with programme accreditation must report the successful completion of a New Zealand Certificate to NZQA. The school is the awarding body.
Reporting the achievement to NZQA will enable NZQA to issue the certificate to the student and to maintain the student's New Zealand Record of Achievement.
How to report completion Schools will need to:
enrol their students in the normal way, through the submission of student enrolment data in a data file to NZQA by 1 December each yearemail NZQA a spreadsheet of students and certificate completions by 8 December each year.New Zealand Qualifications template for schools [XLSX, 9 KB]
Email the Schools Quality Assurance and Support team - Schoolsupport@nzqa.govt.nz
NZQA will verify that any standards-based New Zealand Certificate has been correctly awarded.