New Zealand organisations use the NZQA tab to maintain information required by NZQA (New Zealand Qualifications Authority).
Some fields displayed on this tab are maintained on other tabs.
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Current Student Maintenance - NZQA tab key fields
Fields
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Candidate NSN | NSN allocated to the student (candidate) by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA, Qualifications Authority). This field also appears on the Codes tab as the NSN field (Studies Code field in Australia). See Current Student Maintenance - Codes tab. |
Override Address | Select to allow the entry of an address to be used for the export only. For example, you may need to override the address if the student's examination results need to be sent overseas.
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Withdrawn | Select to indicate that the student has withdrawn from the New Zealand National Secondary Schools Qualifications.
Candidate withdrawals from a qualification, or from individual subjects, must be made by the Qualifications Authority's cut-off date. After the cut-off date, any subjects on a student's record appear on their results. This applies to: - NCEA Level 1
- Sixth Form Certificate
- University Entrance, Bursaries and Scholarships.
The principal's nominee should be aware of the provisions in the regulations that apply to the withdrawal of Bursary candidates who are not going to complete course prescription requirements. Any such withdrawals must be made by the cut-off date.
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Tertiary Release | Select to allow the student's results to be released by the Qualifications Authority. In January of each year, the Qualifications Authority provides all New Zealand Universities and some other tertiary institutions with full sets of candidates' results from the University Entrance, Bursaries and Scholarships examination. Where requested Sixth Form Certificate results are also released. This enables the tertiary institutions to process pre-enrolments. Where this field is cleared, an application to a University or Polytechnic may encounter processing delays. |
Financial Assistance Type | Type of assistance with the payment of entry fees for the New Zealand National Secondary Schools Qualifications. The field values are set in the luStudentFinanceAssistType lookup table. See luStudentFinanceAssistType lookup table in the System maintenance manual.
The initial field values are: - Not selected. No financial assistance has been granted.
- Benefit. This applies if the:
- fee payer is receiving a Work and Income or Study Link benefit
- joint family income would entitle the fee payer to receive a Community Services Card.
- Family. This applies if there is more than one child undertaking these qualifications in the same year, irrespective of income.
Financial assistance is not available for foreign students paying fees.
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Benefit Number | Benefit number that is used on the Application For Financial Assistance for the New Zealand National Secondary Schools Qualifications. For example, either a: - Work and Income benefit
- Study Link benefit.
Where financial assistance has been requested without a benefit number, the applications are processed as hardship applications.
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Payment Amount | Amount payable for entry fees for the New Zealand National Secondary Schools Qualifications, for the selected student. For example, in 2007 the following amounts were applicable: Students are charged the full amount if: - An application has been declined.
- An application was not received.
- The benefit number was not originally supplied as required. Once the benefit number is supplied the fee can be reduced by NZQA.
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Number of Siblings | Number of siblings that are sitting National Secondary Schools Qualifications in the same year as the selected student. This affects the amount payable to the family. See Payment Amount above. |
Application ID | Identification number of the application. |
Results fields
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NCEA Levels | NCEA is part of the New Zealand National Qualifications Framework. See the National Certificates of Educational Achievement (http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/qualifications-standards/qualifications/ncea/) web site. There are three levels of NCEA certificate, depending on the standard achieved by the student. |
Level 1 Literacy Met | Indicates whether the student has met the literacy standard for NCEA level 1. |
Level 1 Numeracy Met | Indicates whether the student has met the numeracy standard for NCEA level 1. |
UE Literacy Met | Indicates whether the student has met the literacy standard for University. |
UE Numeracy Met | Indicates whether the student has met the numeracy standard for University. |
Display-only fields
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Name | Student's name comprised of the Given names and Surname. The value can be updated on either the: |
Date of Birth | Student's date of birth. The value can be updated on either the: |
Ethnic Group 1 / Ethnic Group 2 / Ethnic Group 3 | Ethnic group or groups that a student identifies with. The values can be updated on the NZMOE tab. See Current Student Maintenance - NZMOE tab (Roll returns).
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Address | Student's address to which the results of the University Entrance, Bursaries and Scholarships examination are sent. Rural delivery addresses must include the box holder's name. Addresses should also include a town, city or district not just a suburb or a small locality. Please do not include New Zealand in the address. Students are encouraged to inform the Qualifications Authority in writing of any change of address. They should continue to do this until April in the following year, as the certificates are released at this time. The address details can either be: |
Entry Date | Date that the student started at your organisation. The value can be updated on the Entry tab. See Current Student Maintenance - Entry tab.
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Leaving Date | Date that the student left your organisation. The value can be updated on the Entry tab. See Current Student Maintenance - Entry tab.
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Leaving Reason | Reason that the student left your organisation. The value can be updated on the Entry tab. See Current Student Maintenance - Entry tab. |
Student Type | Type of student for funding purposes. The value can be updated on the NZMOE tab. See Current Student Maintenance - NZMOE tab (Roll returns).
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