Student Achievement Component

• • Research-based postgraduate classification
  • Classifying courses
  • NZ Standard Classification of Education
  • Honours classification
  • Postgraduate classification
  • Professional programme variations
  • Programme classifications
  • Funding categories
  • Qualification level
  • 1-39 Classification Prescription

Professional programme variations

Some professional qualifications begin with an intermediate year of study that is not classified in the same category as the subsequent professional years.

Some professional qualifications such as health sciences, fine arts, agriculture, horticulture or music combine compulsory specialist courses with optional courses from arts, science and other classifications.

Rule SAC065[1] requires TEOs[2] to disaggregate professional qualifications and to use the course classification for optional non-professional courses. For example an optional arts or science course taken as part of a health-related professional qualification would attract an amount of Investment Plan funding appropriate to the arts or science classification, subject to the maximum level of funding agreed in the Investment Plan.

• [1]

  Rule SAC065: Programme classification - professional qualifications

  Tertiary education organisations must disaggregate professional qualifications into courses when reporting in their Single Data Returns. Optional non-professional courses that form part of a professional qualification must be classified under the course classification, not the programme classification.

• [2]

  Tertiary education organisation (TEO)