External Evaluation and Review

EER is about compliance, academic quality and our students success

The NZQA’s EER panel evaluates our educational performance based on our capability in self-evaluation and student outcomes through documentation and interviews.

Outlined below is our timeline for the October 2020 EER panel visit, the focus areas, ‘what a high performing institute looks like’ and how the NZQA measures our performance.

Timeline

May-June: Internal Evaluation Review (IER) panel
July: IER debriefs/EER planning
August: Interim Programme Evaluation and Plans (PEPs) and Institutional self-evaluation (31 August)
September: Documentation due for focus areas (21 September)
October: EER panel visit – 19-30 October 2020

Focus areas

For our October 2020 review, the focus areas have been confirmed as:

Bachelor of Construction
NZ Cert Auto Engineering L3
Vet Nursing – NZ Cert L5, NZ Dip L6 & Bachelor of Vet Nursing
NZ Dip Sport & Recreation
Social Practice – NZ Cert Health & Wellbeing, Bachelor of Social Practice, Master of Applied Practice
Māori Success Strategy Implementation and Outcomes (sample in the School of Creative Industries)
Pacific Success Strategy Implementation and Outcomes (sample in the School of Bridgepoint)
U25’s Strategy Implementation and Outcomes, and secondary/tertiary transition programmes (sample in the School of Trades and Services)
International student recruitment, support and wellbeing (sample in the School of Applied Business and School of Computing)

What does a high performing institute look like?

A NZQA Category 1 education provider can always demonstrate two key features underpinning its focus on student achievement: effective and accessible systems and processes and a culture of continuous improvement.

To help us build the Category 1 culture we’ve identified 7 habits of Category 1 ITPs: