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

Programme classifications

Some qualifications, for example Medicine, are classified in programme classifications. We treat these qualifications in a different manner for funding purposes. 

The compulsory courses that make up these qualifications attract the funding category assigned to the qualification as a whole. In contrast, courses normally support funding according to their own funding category regardless of their home qualification.

Undergraduate qualifications claimed as programmes must be aggregated qualifications. Postgraduate qualifications must be disaggregated in accordance with Rule SAC064[1].

Sometimes a learner may take extra courses that contain non-professional content outside the programme, for example art, in which cases Rule SAC063[2] applies.

• [1]

  Rule SAC064: Programme classification - undergraduate and postgraduate

  For undergraduate qualifications, tertiary education organisations (TEOs) may claim only aggregated qualifications in the programme classifications.

  TEOs must not place postgraduate qualifications in programme classsifications in their entirety, but must disaggregate postgraduate qualifications and classify courses individually according to the 1–39 Classification Prescription.

• [2]

  Rule SAC063: Programme classification - extra courses

  If a learner takes extra courses outside a qualification funded under a programme classification, the Tertiary Education Commission determines Investment Plan funding supported by these extra courses according to the appropriate course-specific classification.