CMR for Agriculture Industry Training Organisation [Ref: 0052]

CMR for Horticulture [Ref: 0032]

CMR for Sports Turf [Ref: 0037]

CMR for Primary Sector subfield [Ref: 0232]

Review of Primary ITO Organisation CMRs

Primary ITO has completed the review of the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMRs) above.

Date new version published                                                             November 2015

The next CMR review is planned to take place during 2019.

Summary of revision

Since the completion of the merger between NZITO and Primary ITO in February 2014, substantial work has been undertaken to consolidate the quality systems across all Primary ITO sectors.  As a result, the CMRs were reviewed in order to bring consistency in quality assurance and moderation, while retaining the requirements that are specific to the individual sectors. 

In order to better manage the process of making these requirements consistent across the board, it was decided to minimise the total number of CMRs by merging similar sectors into ‘Growing’, ‘Processing’, and ‘Animal Care’ CMRs. 

There are a number of sections that have been standardised across these three merged CMRs.  These include clarification of Primary ITOs involvement in the process for granting consent to assess, and consolidating the Moderation Requirements for consistency across all sectors.

For the ‘Growing’ sectors, CMR 0052 was selected as the ‘master’ CMR, incorporating the standardised information, and the industry or sector-specific requirements for consent to assess for the Agriculture sector (covering Agriculture, Animal Care and Handling, Pest Management, Pork Production, Poultry Production, and Wool Harvesting) (Appendix 1), the Horticulture sector (Appendix 2), the Sports Turf sector (Appendix 3) and the Primary sector (Appendix 4).  CMRs 0032, 0037, and 0232 were updated to mirror the appropriate sections of CMR 0052, and the standards on these CMRs will be transferred to CMR 0052 when they are next reviewed or revised.

Compliance with new requirements

Requirements for consent to assess will apply with effect from November 2015.

Moderation system requirements will apply with effect from November 2015.

Organisations with consent to assess will be expected to be able to demonstrate compliance with the CMR from April 2016.

Main changes

CMR for Agriculture Industry Training Organisation [Ref: 0052]

CMR for Horticulture [Ref: 0032]

CMR for Sports Turf [Ref: 0037]

CMR for Primary Sector subfield [Ref: 0232]

CMR for Agriculture, Animal Care and Handling, Horticulture, Pest Management, Pork Production, Poultry Production, Primary Sector, Sports Turf, Wool Harvesting, and Environment [Ref: 0052]

CMR 0052 has been renamed to incorporate the additional scope of CMRs 0032, 0037, and 0232.

CMRs 0032, 0037, and 0232 have been updated to mirror the appropriate sections of CMR 0052.

Requirements for Consent to Assess (RCA)

Standard Setting Body involvement in process for granting consent to assess

· This section has been amended for consistency with current Primary ITO systems and applied to all three merged CMRs.

· Information has been incorporated on Primary ITO reserving the right to visit organisations seeking consent to assess, and the fees for consent to assess evaluations and/or visits. There are also only two criteria for this process:

Levels 1 and 2               Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.

Levels 3 and above      Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and industry.

Industry or sector-specific requirements for consent to assess

Appendix 1 was added to provide details of industry requirements for the Agriculture sectors.  No changes were made.

Appendix 2 was added to provide details of industry requirements for the Horticulture sectors.

· Criterion 1 was amended for accuracy and currency, including the addition of replacement qualifications where available.

· Criterion 2 was amended for accuracy and currency:

· replacement qualifications have been included, where available

· example qualifications for the Viticulture domain have been removed.

· Criterion 7 was removed as the requirements are represented in the main content of the CMR.

Appendix 3 was added to provide details of the requirements of the Sports Turf industry. 

· Criterion 3 was amended for accuracy and currency, including the addition of replacement qualifications, where available

Appendix 4 was added to provide details of industry requirements of the Primary Sector unit standards. 

· Criterion 7 was removed as the requirements are represented in the main content of the CMR.

Moderation System

This section has been amended to include a more comprehensive view of the moderation system as a whole and standardised across the merged CMRs:

· Information has been included on planning, and on all of the post-assessment moderation activities at Primary ITO’s disposal (i.e. cluster workshops, moderation panel, site visits, annual moderation report and assessment plan, and postal moderation). 

· Pre-assessment moderation information has been revised to reinforce the message that assessment materials are available.  If assessment materials are developed by organisations with consent to assess, pre-assessment moderation is required and there are fees for this process.

Funding

· A fees schedule table has been added for consistency with current Primary ITO systems.