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

Qualification codes

The format of the qualification code is alphanumeric. It has two letters followed by four numbers. The two letters are a standard code, for example NC (National Certificate), ND (National Diploma), VI (Victoria University), or PC (PTEs).

TEOs[1] offering a national certificate or national diploma on the NZQF[2] are required under Rule SAC029[3] to use the same code as used on the NZQF for all references to the qualification.

For information on the TEC Qualifications Register and the current list of qualifications approved for SAC funding or learner access to student allowances and the Student Loan Scheme, select ‘qualification search’ or ‘course search’ in the Services for Tertiary Education Organisations website (opens in a new window).

• [1]

  Tertiary education organisation (TEO)

• [2]

  New Zealand Qualifications Framework (NZQF)

• [3]

  Rule SAC029: Qualifications Register

  Tertiary education organisations offering a national certificate or national diploma on the New Zealand Qualifications Framework (NZQF) must use the same code as used on the NZQF for all references to the qualification.

  Note: The format of the qualification code is alphanumeric. It has two letters followed by four numbers. The two letters are a standard code, for example NC (National Certificate), ND (National Diploma), VI (Victoria University), or PC (PTEs).