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UFS funding categories and delivery classifications

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The introduction of the Unified Funding System (UFS) has created six subject categories for funding purposes and will require all vocational education providers to use the Delivery Classification Guide to inform their funding rates.

This webpage provides:

details on how the UFS subject categories map to the Delivery Classification Guide;
further guidance about changes to the Delivery Classification Guide to complement the indicative allocations;
relationship between the Industry Training Register and the Delivery Classification Guide;
a new definition for intramural and extramural study for the single data return (SDR).

UFS subject category

DQ3-7 funding categories

Delivery classification guide numbers and subject areas

F1

Humanities, Business and Social Service Vocations

A, J

#03: Arts; Advanced Studies for Teachers; Health Therapies; Humanities; Languages; Social Sciences.

#04: Business; Accountancy; Office Systems/Secretarial; Management.

#5.2: General Education (unclassified)

#14: Law

F2

Trades, Creative Arts, Information Technology and Health-related Professions

B, P

#02: Architecture; Quantity Surveying

#06: Computer Science

#12: Fine Arts; Design

#16: Music and Performing Arts

#17: Health Related Professions

#22: Trades 2

F3

Agriculture, Engineering, Health Sciences and Science

C, L, V

#01: Agriculture and Horticulture

#3.1: Osteopathy, Acupuncture

#11: Engineering, Technology

#13: Health Sciences

#18: Science

F4

Pilot Training and Priority Engineering

M, N

#11.1: Priority Engineering (leading to qualifications at L5 or above)

#11.2: Pilot Training

F5

Foreign-going Nautical and Specialist Agriculture

S, H

#38: Foreign-Going Nautical

#01: Agriculture and Horticulture (specialist / higher-level provision leading to qualifications at L5 or above)

F6

Te Reo Māori and Tikanga Māori

A

#40: Te Reo Māori – Courses that prepare or develop further the abilities of individuals to understand and demonstrate knowledge of te reo Māori. Principal subject areas include kōrero, pānui, tuhituhi and whakarongo.

#41: Tikanga – Tikanga Māori courses are about te ao Māori (a Māori worldview), they are informed by mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) and inform a Māori way of being and knowing.

Notes: Agriculture and horticulture provision that could be coded to #22: Trades (F2) or #01: Agriculture (F3) should generally be coded to #01 (for the F3 rate).

Te Reo Māori and Tikanga that were coded to #03 should now be coded #40 Te Reo Maori and #41 Tikanga.

Industry Training Register

Previously, Industry Training did not have delivery classification codes. Industry Training Register submitters have now been supplied with information on the delivery classification codes and how these need to be used.

Single Data Return

To align with the Modes of Delivery as part of the UFS, we are making minor changes to the Single Data Return (SDR) definitions for Intramural and Extramural.

These minor changes will recognise the ways in which learners seek to access learning.

Intramural and residing in New Zealand	Covers courses where students must attend scheduled teaching sessions in New Zealand in person for the majority of their course in order to meet course requirements. These courses may, however, include periods of supervised research and clinical or field experience which may take place outside the campus, and can also include the option of on-line attendance for some or all teaching sessions.
Extramural and residing in New Zealand	Covers courses for students who are resident in New Zealand where the majority of their scheduled teaching is primarily delivered off-campus in New Zealand. These courses use postal services and online technology as the main method of teaching delivery. These courses may, however, include short periods of on-campus attendance.
Extramural and residing overseas	Covers students who are resident overseas and are unable to attend on-campus courses in New Zealand.
Intramural and residing overseas	Covers courses where students must be physically present in scheduled teaching sessions at a TEO’s campus located in an overseas country in order to meet the course requirements. These courses may, however, include periods of supervised research and clinical or field experience which may take place outside the campus.

Notes on the UFS delivery component funding categories

Delivery classification codes and subject areas, and the alpha-numeric funding categories, are a feature of the DQ3-7.
The funding rates for the UFS delivery component (e.g. F1, F2, etc.) are based on a combination of DQ3-7 funding categories (e.g. A1, B1 etc.). The current alpha-numeric DQ3-7 funding categories (e.g. A1, B1 etc.) group a combination of subject areas that are listed in the Delivery Classification Guide (e.g. #03 Arts, #04 Business).
More information is available at Delivery Classification Guide (PDF 756 KB).