Appendix 2: Delegations to Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics Quality

ITP Quality notes that it has multiple delegations from NZQA that relate to quality assurance, including:

(a) 11 January 1993, relating to delegation of powers under sections 258 and 259 of the Education Act 1989, to be exercised by the New Zealand Polytechnic Programmes Committee (the predecessor of ITP Quality);

(b) 10 March 2000, relating to using audit as one of the mechanisms for collecting evidence for the purposes of sections 258 and 259 of the Education Act 1989;

(c) 12 November 2002, concerning an extension of delegation for approval, accreditation, and monitoring of degree courses at the undergraduate level; and

(d) 15 December 2004, under section 260(2) of the Education Act 1989, which delegates to ITP Quality the powers of the NZQA under sections 255A, 258, 258A, 259, and 259A of the Act; and under section 254 (5) of the Education Act 1989, which delegates the power of the NZQA to consent to the award of a qualification described as a degree for polytechnic degree courses.