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

Research-based postgraduate classification

There are a number of criteria concerning research-based postgraduate courses outlined in the following rules:

• [1]

  Rule SAC069: Postgraduate classification - international postgraduate students

  International students undertaking postgraduate research-based qualifications are eligible for specified Student Achievement Component funding in Funding Categories A5 to M5, except those enrolling in a Doctor of Philosophy programme at a New Zealand university after 19 April 2005.

   

  Note: International students funded under Funding Categories A5 to M5 include Doctor of Philosophy students who enrolled on or before 19 April 2005.

  Note: International students enrolling in a Doctor of Philosophy programme at a New Zealand university after 19 April 2005 are classed as domestic students and are funded under Funding Categories A4 to M4.

• [2]

  Rule SAC071: Postgraduate classification - research definition

  To be classified as research-based postgraduate study, a programme of study must meet all of the following:

  • Have an Equivalent Full-Time Student (EFTS) value of at least one EFTS unit. This total may be spread over more than one academic or calendar year
  • Include one or more courses at level 8 or higher on the New Zealand Qualifications Framework, totalling a minimum of one EFTS unit
  • Learners' work must be supervised and result in the production of a substantial research output by the individual learner, amounting to 100% of the learning and assessment for the course(s).
• [3]

  Rule SAC072: Postgraduate classification - research definition exclusions

  Tertiary education organisations must not record the following as research-based postgraduate:

  • A course that is preparatory to a thesis, such as research methods
  • A research project with less than one Equivalent Full-Time Student unit.
• [4]

  Rule SAC073: Postgraduate classification - research definition thesis

  Tertiary education organisations must record a thesis as research-based postgraduate if it is one Equivalent Full-Time Student unit or more. It may span more than one academic or calendar year.

• [5]

  Rule SAC074: Postgraduate classification - exclusions

  The following must not be classified as postgraduate:

  • The fourth year of a four-year undergraduate degree
  • A graduate certificate or diploma that equates to the final year of an undergraduate degree and is open to graduate learners from a variety of disciplines.