Glossary

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  • Academic Quality Agency for New Zealand Universities (AQA)

    The Academic Quality Agency is an independent body established and owned by Universities New Zealand, which reviews academic quality monitoring systems and advises on good practice and quality-assurance issues.

  • Accelerating Learner Success Fund (Tūwhitia)

    The Accelerating Learner Success Fund (Tūwhitia) supports initiatives focused on accelerating learner success in tertiary education and training. It aims to improve outcomes for learners, particularly underserved learners across the system.

  • ACE Aotearoa

    Adult and Community Education (ACE) Aotearoa Incorporated (ACE Aotearoa) is a professional development body of networks of adult and community educators. ACE Aotearoa receives ACE Aotearoa Sector Capability Building Funding  to perform three roles and achieve the outcomes of strategic sector leadership, sector capability building, and sector co-ordination.

  • Achievement standard

    A nationally registered set of learning outcomes and associated assessment criteria.   Achievement standards are derived from the New Zealand Curriculum.

  • Adult and Community Education (ACE) Fund

    Provides community-based education, foundation skills and pathways into other learning opportunities that meet the community learning needs.

  • Adult and Community Education Aotearoa Incorporated

    Adult and Community Education (ACE) Aotearoa Incorporated (ACE Aotearoa) is a professional development body of networks of adult and community educators. ACE Aotearoa supports the sector to deliver centrally coordinated, structured learning.

  • Ako

    Effective teaching and learning for, and with, Māori learners and the conditions that support it.

  • Ako Aotearoa

    Champions of excellence in tertiary teaching and learning in New Zealand.

  • Ako Panuku

    A Ministry of Education professional development programme for Māori teachers in years 7–13.  

  • Ākonga

    Learner or student.