Competenz, the Industry Training Organisation (ITO) for the Pharmaceutical and Allied Products Manufacturing industry, has discontinued the three qualifications listed above.
As a result of the Manufacturing Sector Targeted Review of Qualifications process, it was identified that the above technical qualifications were no longer required by industry. In future, trainees will enrol in the New Zealand Certificate in Manufacturing (Level 2) [Ref: 2729], the New Zealand Certificate in Manufacturing (Level 3) with an optional strand in Productivity Improvement [Ref: 2730] or the New Zealand Certificate in Manufacturing (Level 4) with an optional strand in Technical Support [Ref: 2731] with a pharmaceutical and allied products manufacturing specific industry training programme. It was also noted that the discontinued qualifications have had very little use in the last five years due to previously identified barriers to completion, and the flexibility offered by the new suite of qualifications will resolve these issues. There are no enrolments on programmes leading to the qualifications and there will not be, therefore they have been discontinued.
The qualifications were designated discontinued and will not be replaced.
Review category | D | See Key to Qualification Review Categories at the end of report |
There are no transition implications for these qualifications.
Category A The qualification is published as a new version with the same NQF ID | Changes are made to SSB name, contact details or purpose statement |
No change is made to title, rules or components of the qualification | |
No transition arrangements are required | |
Category B The qualification is published as a new version with the same NQF ID | Changes are made to title, rules or components |
The new version of the qualification recognises a similar skill set to that recognised by the previous version | |
The SSB is confident that people awarded the new or previous version are comparable in terms of competence | |
Transition arrangements are required if candidates must gain additional/different credits for the new version | |
Category C A new (replacement) qualification is published with new NQF ID | Significant changes are made to the qualification in terms of components, structure, type or level |
The SSB views people with the replacement qualification as being significantly different in terms of competence from those with the replaced qualification | |
Transition arrangements are required | |
Transition may be limited to phase-out dates | |
Category D Qualification will expire. There is no replacement qualification | Qualification is no longer required by industry |
The qualification is designated as expiring and a last date for meeting the qualification requirements is set |