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Tertiary education organisations (TEOs) must disaggregate qualifications into component courses before an external quality assurance body approves the qualifications. TEOs must allocate Equivalent Full-Time Student (EFTS) factors to each course within the qualification.
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Tertiary education organisations (TEOs) must provide the Tertiary Education Commission with accurate information about the qualification. TEOs must do all of the following: Disaggregate the qualification into component courses based on the content and the way the delivery of learning is organised Determine the credits or points, plus the planned learning hours and full-time weeks of study for t…
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Tertiary education organisations (TEOs) must supply information to the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) that academically justifies a decision not to disaggregate a qualification. The TEC will not, in the absence of other supporting information, approve funding for a single course leading to a qualification that the TEO has not disaggregated.
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When a qualification is measured in credits, a tertiary education organisation must calculate the Equivalent Full-Time Student (EFTS) factor for each course by: dividing the number of credits in the course by the total number of credits in the qualification, then multiplying this number by the EFTS value of the qualification. The following is provided as an example, and is not part of the Rule:…
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When tertiary education organisations calculate the Equivalent Full-Time Student (EFTS) factors of courses, they must: Express the EFTS factors as numbers with four decimal places Example 0.1250 or 0.6667 Use the same measuring tools they used to determine the EFTS value of the qualification Ensure the sum of the EFTS factors for the courses in the longest strand (if more than one strand)…
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When a tertiary education organisation (TEO) delivers a qualification in one year and the credits exceed 120, the TEO must calculate the courses' Equivalent Full-Time Student (EFTS) factors using the total actual credits (not 120). Example: The following is provided as an example, and is not part of the Rule: For a qualification with a total of 135 credits and an EFTS value of one unit, the…
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Tertiary education organisations (TEOs) may submit, as Student Achievement Component-related enrolments in Single Data Returns, additional Equivalent Full-Time Student (EFTS) units based on the courses taken for learners whose enrolment legitimately exceeds the EFTS value of a qualification, provided that: exceeding the EFTS value is an exceptional case resulting from learner choice the TEO can…
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When a qualification, up to and including New Zealand Qualifications Framework level 7, comprises a full teaching year of between 34 and 52 weeks, it has an Equivalent Full-Time Student (EFTS) value of one unit, unless the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) has approved an exception to this limit. Note: In exceptional circumstances, the TEC negotiates variations with individual tertiary…
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When classifying courses tertiary education organisations must do all of the following: Assign a classification for each course based on the subject matter of the course Ensure at least 90% of the content or subject matter of a course fits into a single classification Classify both new and significantly changed courses correctly.
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The Tertiary Education Commission has final approval of the course classifications made by tertiary education organisations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Certificates and diplomas are only classified as postgraduate when both the following apply: They build on the undergraduate degree of the same discipline at level 8 or higher They are equivalent to the first year (Diploma) or half year (Certificate) of a master’s degree.
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Postgraduate classification is appropriate for honours programmes meeting any of the following criteria: honours programmes that require admission from a completed bachelor’s degree a final-year honours’ stream into which learners are specifically admitted courses that are specific to the honours’ stream.
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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…
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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'…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The maximum Equivalent Full-Time Student (EFTS) value for a doctorate is usually four EFTS units. In exceptional circumstances, a tertiary education organisation may claim up to five EFTS units on approval from its council (or an academic committee with delegated authority to give such approvals). This applies if the research demands mean that an individual learner cannot complete the programme…
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Tertiary education organisations must classify postgraduate courses following on from qualifications within single programme classifications in the same way as all other courses, according to the 1–39 Classification Prescription.
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Tertiary education organisations must classify courses in postgraduate teaching qualifications as classification #03, unless the disaggregated courses meet all the following criteria: The course is designed for learners who have a pre-service teaching qualification recognised by the New Zealand Teachers Council The course contains a practical component of 50% or more at level 8 or equivalent,…
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The 2011 funding caps are: Medical undergraduate – year one intake of 445 places Dentistry – year one intake of 54 places (University of Otago) Veterinary science – total undergraduate enrolment of 340 places (Massey University) Specialist large animal science – total learner enrolment of 70 EFTS (Lincoln University) Aviation – 600 EFTS. From 1 January 2011 there is no separate funding limit o…
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The Annual Maximum Fees Movement (AMFM) policy applies to fees and course costs that tertiary education organisations (TEOs) receiving Student Achievement Component (SAC) funding charge domestic students enrolled in courses leading to a short award, certificate, diploma, undergraduate degree, or postgraduate qualification. The policy also applies to organisations funded by a grant under section…
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The AMFM policy applies to fees charged to: all domestic students enrolled in courses subject to the policy, whether those students attract Student Achievement Component funding or not international PhD students who are enrolled as domestic students, but not to those enrolled as foreign students.
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For a course that spans more than one calendar year, the applicable fee to be charged to a learner enrolled on that course is the fee applying to the year in which the course starts. The start date of the qualification of which that course is a part is not relevant.
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The AMFM policy applies to compulsory costs. A cost is classed as compulsory when all of the following apply: The tertiary education organisation is the sole source of the item to which the cost relates All learners are required to pay the charge The charge is not exempt under the fees policy.
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For AMFM policy purposes, fee/course costs include the following: Tuition fees Compulsory administration charges Examination fees Material charges Field trips, including any accommodation cost integral to the trip Any compulsory purchase of equipment or books, specific to the course, through the TEO Other charges associated with a course or programme of study.
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The following items are not subject to the Annual Maximum Fee Movement policy: The cost of returning exam scripts or exam recounts International handling charges for domestic students living overseas and studying extramurally Compulsory books or equipment that learners can purchase from either the tertiary education organisation or another source Student association fees Learner service levies…
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The Annual Maximum Fee Movement policy does not apply to: professional masters’ and professional doctoral degrees courses that are not approved for Student Achievement Component funding (other than those funded under section 321 of the Education Act 1989).
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If a tertiary education organisation (TEO) does not increase a fee by the full percentage of the Annual Maximum Fee Movement, the unused portion cannot be accrued for use in a following year. TEOs cannot apply a notional discount to a fee never actually charged to learners, for notional removal in a following year.
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The highest fee/course costs that any group of learners may be required to pay to the tertiary education organisation (TEO) is the benchmark fee. A TEO cannot set a benchmark fee that is higher than the highest fee ever charged to an intake of learners. Fee discounts If a TEO discounts the fee/course costs for all learners in a course for a calendar year, the discounted fee/course costs must be…
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This condition applies if a tertiary education organisation's (TEO’s) (the "exiting TEO") courses are incorporated into either of the following (the "continuing TEO") through merger or sale: Another existing TEO A new TEO created to merge the delivery of two or more exiting TEOs. If the continuing TEO has similar courses to those delivered by the exiting TEO, the incorporated (transferring)…
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This Condition applies if the Tertiary Education Commission does either of the following in the case of a sale or merger between tertiary education organisations (TEOs): Continues a funding relationship with a TEO that continues to exist and deliver funded courses Establishes a funding relationship with a new TEO created specifically for delivering those courses, and for that delivery. In this…