Revision and rollover of Early Childhood Education and Care unit standards and Revision and rollover of Pacific Islands Early Childhood Education unit standards

Field Education

Revision and rollover of Early Childhood Education and Care unit standards and Revision and rollover of Pacific Islands Early Childhood Education unit standards

Subfield	Domain	ID
Early Childhood Education and Care	Early Childhood: Educational Theory and Practice	9302, 9306, 9308, 9312, 9314, 9325, 10013, 10019-10026, 10028, 10029, 26707-26712, 27145
	Early Childhood: Family, Whānau, Community, and Society	9331, 9332, 9337, 20406, 20407, 27146
	Early Childhood: Professional Practice	9293, 9297, 10032, 10033, 12736, 26714-26716
Pacific Islands Early Childhood Education	Pacific Early Childhood Education: Curriculum	18780-18785, 18789, 18792, 26353-26355, 26694-26697, 26747
	Pacific Early Childhood Education: Family	18797, 18798
	Pacific Early Childhood Education: Management	18800, 18803-18806, 26698
	Pacific Early Childhood Education: Professional Development	18794, 18795
	Pacific Island Early Childhood Education: Cultural Support	23412-23423

NZQA National Qualifications Services has completed the revision and rollover of the 75 unit standards listed above.

Date new versions published August 2015

Planned review date December 2019

Summary

The mandatory review of Early Childhood Education (ECE) qualifications, which includes Pacific Islands Early Childhood Education (PIECE) qualifications, is currently underway, and the ECE unit standards above are due for review in 2015. The flow-on effects of the mandatory review on these standards is unknown, so they have been revised and rolled over to extend their period of listing on the Directory of Assessment Standards (DAS). Once the current review of ECE qualifications has been completed and new qualifications listed, the ECE and PIECE unit standards will be progressively reviewed in light of the new qualifications.

Changes have been made only where necessary to ensure the standard is current (e.g. with legislation and regulations) and where there have been issues with clarity or intent.

Main changes

· A last date for assessment has been added to the previous versions of these unit standards.

· The planned review date for these standards has been extended from 2015 to 2019.

· Explanatory notes were clarified from feedback received, to better reflect intent and to update relevant guidelines, legislation, and links to websites.

· Removed reference to capital and operational funding terminology in evidence requirements for standard 12736, to better reflect Ministry of Education funding handbook language; minor modification to evidence requirement 2.2 of standard 27146 and evidence requirement 1.2 of standard 10033, to clarify and fit with current terminology.

There are no impacts on existing organisations with consent to assess, on Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR), or on registered qualifications, as a result of this revision and rollover.