Glossary

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Mōhiotanga

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.

ACE

Adult and Community Education

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 supports the sector to deliver centrally coordinated, structured learning.

ACE Aotearoa Sector Capability Building Funding

ACE Aotearoa Sector Capability Building Funding is to enable ACE Aotearoa 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.

Actual average duration offset

Recalculates Standard Training Measures (STMs), adjusting funding where learners have been enrolled longer, on average, than the estimate (the nominal duration) made by the industry training organisation (ITO).

Adult and Community Education (ACE)

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

Adult and Community Education Aotearoa Incorporated