Student Achievement Component

• • Eligibility
  • Quality assurance requirements
  • Approved qualifications
  • New or changed qualifications
  • Approving courses
  • TEI certificates of proficiency
  • Post-entry health education
  • Pre-service teacher education
  • TEC Qualifications Register
  • Qualification codes
  • SAC funding approval process - TEIs
  • SAC funding approval process - PTEs and REAPS

Qualifications

There are specific requirements for new and significantly changed qualifications to be approved for SAC[1] funding. Qualifications must be of assured quality, relevant to the Tertiary Education Strategy and eligible for SAC funding.

Approval of a qualification for SAC funding is a prerequisite for receiving SAC funding for the qualification as part of the Summary of Activity (also known as the mix of provision) agreed in an Investment Plan.

TEOs[2] must use the methods described in Rule SAC034[3] to determine the appropriate workload involved in qualifications so that they can be appropriately funded for delivering those qualifications. 

View information on payments.

• [1]

  Student Achievement Component fund (SAC)

• [2]

  Tertiary education organisation (TEO)

• [3]

  Rule SAC034 : EFTS value of qualifications - determining

  When determining the Equivalent Full-Time Student (EFTS) value of qualifications, tertiary education organisations (TEOs) must do all of the following:

  • Use the following three methods to determine the EFTS value:
    • Credits or points
    • Learning hours
    • Full-time weeks
  • Determine the EFTS value of a qualification using the credits or points method, and then check the result by the hours and weeks of learning time methods
  • Ensure that a qualification designed to be delivered within a year (any 12 month period) is limited to a maximum of one EFTS unit, even if there are more than 120 credits, 1,200 hours, or 34 weeks, unless the Tertiary Education Commission has approved an exception to this limit.

  Note: see SAC044 for exceptions