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Private training establishment and Industry Training Organisation rules
Private training establishments
The rules listed below are for private training establishments operating in the tertiary sector:
- Registration
- Annual fee rules 2015 for PTEs and ITOs
- Enrolment and academic records
- Student fee protection
- Student Funds Trust Deposit Exemption Rules 2016
- Refund Criteria for Courses of Less Than Three Months - Gazette notice 2003 (Note that the parts of this Notice relating to exempt courses has been replaced by the Education (Exempt Training Schemes) Notice 2012
- NZQA specified withdrawal periods and refund amounts for domestic students on courses of under 3 months (PDF, 230KB)
NB: The Private Training Establishment Registration Rules (above) incorporate the Private Training Establishment Registration Amendment Rules 2014 (PDF, 70KB), 2015 (PDF, 174KB), 2016 (PDF, 56KB) and 2017 (PDF, 172KB). If you need to, you can download the original version (PDF, 112KB) of the rules which do not include the 2014 amendments, and were in effect from 1 January 2013 until 31 December 2013.
NB: The Student Fee Protection Rules (above) incorporate the Student Fee Protection Amendment Rules 2017 (PDF, 149KB), 2016 (PDF, 54KB) and 2015 (PDF, 282KB). If you need to, you can download the original version (PDF, 718KB) which do not include the 2016 & 2015 amendments.
NB: The Enrolment and academic records rules (above) incorporate the PTE Enrolment and Academic Records Amendment Rules 2016 (PDF, 51KB). If you need to you can download the original version (PDF, 37KB) which does not include these amendments.
Industry training organisations
The following NZQA rules are specific to industry training organisations.
- Annual fee rules 2015 for PTEs and ITOs
- Industry Training Organisation Prescribed Quality Assurance Requirements Rules 2015
- Industry Training Programme Approval Rules
NB: The Annual Fee Rules 2015 incorporate industry training organisations, who now pay an annual fee to cover part of NZQA’s quality assurance costs. The Private Training Establishment Annual Registration Fee Rules (No.2) 2011 are revoked.