Media releases

Credit Fee Increase After consultation with the tertiary education sector, the Board of NZQA has decided to proceed with a proposal to introduce a single fee for registering credits on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). More ...	June 2008
Breaches of Examination Rules Exam candidates appear to be getting the message that cell phones have no place in exam rooms. Statistics on breaches of examination rules released today (June 26) by NZQA show misconduct involving cellphones in the 2007 examinations season dropped by almost a third on the previous year. More ...	June 2008
Progress on standards review The Ministry of Education (MoE) and NZQA are reviewing achievement and unit standards, as part of the joint programme of improvements to NCEA. More ...	June 2008
Changes to moderation finalised NZQA has finalised details for the introduction of random sampling of internally assessed student work for external moderation. This will replace the current self-selection of samples by schools. More ...	May 2008
Endorsed NCEA Certificates delivered Nearly 110,000 NCEA certificates have now been delivered to students gaining the qualification at one of the three levels last year. More ...	May 2008
Top Art tours the country Visual art from New Zealand's top secondary school art students features in a touring exhibition, taking in around 30 venues from Kerikeri to Invercargill over the next four months. More ...	May, 2008
Statistics reflect ongoing improvement in achievement National statistics for the 2007 NCEA are now available online, after being launched at a NZQA Board stakeholder function in Auckland last night. The statistics and support material to assist in understanding the data is online. More ...	March 2008
NQF credit registration fee simplified NZQA has begun consulting the tertiary education sector on a proposed new way of funding National Qualifications Framework (NQF) credit registration. More ...	March 2008
New Monitoring Process: Comparison of internal and external assessment data for NCEA This work is part of a suite of measures put in place by NZQA as part of its key responsibility to continually improve its understanding of school-based assessment. The comprehensive package includes the appointment of 33 fulltime moderators, reporting Not Achieved results for internal assessment, the random sampling of internally assessed work, and the comparison of results for internal and external assessment data for NCEA. More ...	March 2008
NZQA notifies Scholarship's top achievers Results have been posted to more than 8000 students who sat the 2007 Scholarship examinations. Letters were also sent to the country's top scholars - the 'best of the best' - who will receive a monetary award, ranging from a one-off $500 payment to $10,000 over three years. More ...	February 2008
Scholarship Results available from today The wait is nearly over for more than 8000 students who entered 2007 Scholarship examinations, with results available online from today (Monday 18). Candidates can access their results via a secure login page on the NZQA website. Scholarship results notices have also been mailed to candidates and will be delivered over the next few days. More ...	February 2008
Changes to the reporting of NCEA results The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) has finalised details on the reporting of Not Achieved (N) results for NCEA internal assessment carried out by schools. More ...	February 2008
NCEA results available tomorrow The wait is almost over for the 139,000 secondary school candidates who sat National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) examinations in 2007, with the results expected to be delivered to the majority of candidates tomorrow (17 January) More ...	January 2008
NCEA examination results available soon Examination results will be available from the end of next week for the 139,000 candidates who sat NCEA examinations in November and December. NCEA candidates will receive their national qualifications results notices between 17 and 25 January. Scholarship results are due to be released in February. More ...	January 2008
2007 Exam marking draws to a close Marking of the 1.9 million NCEA examination papers is more than 95% complete, and will finish by Christmas, as scheduled. Results are now being verified and collated and are expected to be available to students in the last week of January. Examination booklets will be sent back to the candidates in the second half of January. More ...	December 2007
2007 examination round due to start Nearly 140,000 secondary school students will be sitting NCEA and scholarship examinations this year. The exams start on Monday 19 November and finish on Wednesday 5 December. More ...	November 2007
Managing National Assessment reports go online Parents now have easier access to information on school performance with Managing National Assessment (MNA) reports available on the New Zealand Qualifications Authority website. NZQA produces the reports for every secondary school in New Zealand. The reports assess how well schools are managing their internal assessment processes and are completed at least every three years. More ...	November 2007
Call goes out for internal assessment moderators NZQA is seeking 31 full-time and four part-time moderators to be employed as part of plans to increase moderation of internal assessment for NCEA from 3 percent of student work to 10 percent. More ...	August 2007
Breaches of Examination Rules Detailed data on breaches of examination rules in 2006 was released on 10 August 2007 by NZQA, under the Official Information Act. More ...	August 2007
Details of NCEA certificate endorsement announced NZQA has announced details of endorsement of National Certificates in Educational Achievement (NCEA). Students will require 50 credits at Excellence to gain an NCEA endorsed with Excellence, and 50 credits at Merit (or Merit and Excellence), to gain an NCEA endorsed with Merit, NZQA Deputy Chief Executive, Qualifications, Bali Haque said. More ...	July 2007
November deadline for reimbursement of domestic student fees following closure of a private training establishment Last year the Government decided that in certain circumstances it will reimburse the unused fees and associated student loan interest of domestic students following the closure of private training establishments. Students who think they may be eligible for a partial reimbursement are urged to lodge an application as soon as possible. More ...	June 2007
Māori Strategic and Implementation Plan launched The New Zealand Qualifications Authority has launched Te Rautaki Māori me Te Mahere Whakatinana a Te Mana Tohu Mātauranga o Aotearoa, (2007-2012) - its first Māori Strategic and Implementation Plan. The plan was officially launched in a ceremony at Parliament, hosted by the Hon Parekura Horomia, Minister of Māori Affairs and Associate Minister of Education. More ...	May 2007
Breaches of Examination Rules Statistics on breaches of examination rules for the 2006 exams were released by NZQA today. A total of 336 breaches of the examination rules were investigated in 2006, from a total of 138,260 candidates. For the 2005 exams, there were 208 breaches reported from 134,800 candidates. More ...	May 2007
Statistics online earlier National statistics for the 2006 NCEA and Scholarship are now available online, a month earlier than last year. More ...	March 2007
Random Sampling Pilot By NZQA NZQA will conduct a pilot study into the use of random sampling in moderation of internal assessment in secondary schools in September. More ...	March 2007

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