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September 2008 Issue 61
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NZQA welcomes new Board member

Shona SmithNZQA's newest Board member is Shona Smith, Deputy Principal of Waitakere College in Henderson, Auckland. She was formerly Head of English at Birkenhead College and has taught in four different Auckland secondary schools. She has a wide range of curriculum, assessment and qualifications expertise and has been a member of the Scholarship Processes Advisory Group.

Ms Smith has also served on the NCEA Forum and was the convenor of Te Tiro Hou, the Qualifications Framework Inquiry, in 1996-97. She is a former National President of the NZ PPTA. She served two terms on the Auckland College of Education Council and three years as President of the Auckland Secondary and Deputy Principals Association.

In 1995-96 she held a Commonwealth Fellowship and was awarded Associate of the Institute of Education by the University of London following a year-long investigation into standards-based assessment in New Zealand and the United Kingdom . In 2008 she was the recipient of the NASDAP Scholarship and completed a course in educational leadership at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

She joins Sue Suckling (Chair), Warwick Bell, Angela Foulkes, John Langley, John Morgan, Keith Taylor, Samantha Lundon, Scott Davidson and Alison McAlpine on the Board of NZQA.

 

 

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