The Wellington conference is sponsored by the following four full members of the INQAAHE:

New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA)

	The role of NZQA is to provide national and international leadership in the area of quality assured qualifications. NZQA does this through:
	•	providing an overarching quality assurance role in the tertiary sector
	•	quality assurance of national qualifications
	•	administering the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) and establishing the NZ Register of Quality Assured Qualifications
	•	registering private training establishments and quality assuring qualifications offered by private providers and wananga
	•	providing dedicated support to wananga and Maori private training establishments
	•	administering the National Certificate of Educational Achievement and other school, trade and vocational assessment
	•	evaluating overseas qualifications for immigration and employment purposes.

NZQA works in close collaboration with education agencies and providers including universities, polytechnics, wananga and private training establishments. Click here to visit the website of NZQA

ITP Quality
ITP Quality is the agency through which the government ensures that education programmes delivered by New Zealand Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) are of an acceptable standard. ITP Quality approves programmes, accredits ITPs and audits them against standards developed by the ITP sector; and encourages continual improvement of systems and programmes. Click here to visit the website of ITP Quality

NZ Universities Academic Audit Unit
The New Zealand Universities Academic Audit Unit was established by the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors’ Committee as an independent audit unit. Cycle 1 institutional audits of all universities were completed during 1995 and 1998, and Cycle 2 audits - on the national theme related to research, research-teaching nexus and support for research students - was conducted during 2000 and 2001. The Unit operates under terms of reference which require it to consider and review universities’ mechanisms for monitoring and enhancing the academic quality and to identify and commend to universities good practice and assist the university sector improve its educational quality. Click here to visit the website of NZUAAU

New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee
The New Zealand Vice-Chancellors’ Committee was established by the Universities Act 1961 which replaced the federal University of New Zealand with separate institutions. Today, the Committee represents the interests of New Zealand’s eight universities and works through a permanent secretariat based in Wellington. Then Committee has delegated a number of functions to a range of standing committees generally consisting of a representative from each university.

Ad hoc working parties address specific issues. Within its overall mission of promoting New Zealand university interests, the Committee has a number of key functions which include advice to government and its agencies, approval and moderation procedures for academic programmes in universities, administration and development of scholarships schemes and generic promotion of the countries’ universities, both in New Zealand and internationally. Clicker to visit the website of the NZVCC

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