Statutory actions

The statutory actions listed on this page include a summary of the action and its current status.

Actions are listed alphabetically by the tertiary education organisations' (TEOs) legal names.

Current statutory actions

TEO name	MoE No.	Context and Description	Status of the Action
New Zealand School of Vocational Education & Training	7326	Context Withdrawal of accreditation. Description Under section 444 of the Education & Training Act 2020, NZQA have withdrawn accreditation for New Zealand School of Vocational Education and Training Limited’s (NZSVET) delivery of the New Zealand Certificate in Health and Wellbeing (Advanced Care and Support) Level 4 (NZCHW). Remaining learners completing after the issuing of the notice were allowed to finish their studies at NZSVET with some parameters for oversight by NZQA in place.	Notice of withdrawal of accreditation issued on 11 November 2025 Date of withdrawal of accreditation occurred on 6 March 2026.
New Zealand International Commercial Pilot Academy Limited (NZICPA)	8074	Context Registration as a private training establishment. Description Under section 348 of the Education Act, NZICPA must: Cease the enrolment of new learners, including issuing new offers of place. Develop an action plan, to NZQA’s satisfaction, to: improve NZICPA’s governance and management oversight of all training operations improve the quality management systems to ensure NZICPA will maintain compliance with its obligations under the PTE Registration Rules in future ensure training is properly planned for and delivered including: improving the ratio of instructors to learners to 1:5 developing individual training plans for learners, with scheduling to help ensure timely achievement of training milestones assign primary instructors to ensure continuity for individual learners. Implement the action plan to NZQA’s satisfaction.	Conditions imposed on 1 July 2025
Queenstown Resort College Limited	7694	Context  Accreditation to deliver the QRC Diploma in Hospitality Management (Level 6) Description Conditions on accreditation to provide the QRC Diploma in Hospitality management (Level 6) have been imposed with QRC’s agreement.  The conditions require QRC to review its assessment materials, to carry out further internal moderation of assessment tasks, and to review its internal policies. These conditions will stay in place until NZQA has more confidence in QRC’s assessment capabilities for this programme.	Conditions imposed on 11 April 2025.
New Zealand Institute Skills and Technology trading as Whitireia and WelTec	6014	Context Accreditation to deliver the New Zealand Diploma in Information Technology Technical Support (Level 5) programme (‘the NZDITTS’). Description Conditions on the accreditation to provide the NZDITTS have been imposed, with Whitireia and WelTec’s agreement. The conditions require Whitireia and WelTec to cease enrolments, review its assessment materials, and carry out moderation for every assessment task issued to learners.	Conditions imposed on 2 October 2025.
CC Training Academy Limited, trading as: CC Training Academy and Auckland College of Tertiary Studies	6030	Context Accreditation to deliver the New Zealand Diploma in Construction (Level 6) with strands in Construction Management and Quantity Surveying Description Conditions on accreditation to provide the New Zealand Diploma in Construction (Level 6) with strands in Construction Management and Quantity Surveying (NZDC) have been imposed, with CCTA’s agreement. The conditions allow CCTA to enrol two cohorts of up to 30 learners each into the NZDC. This is until such time as NZQA conducts follow-up Monitoring/moderation activity of CCTA's provision of the NZDC.	Conditions imposed on 4 March 2025.
Imperial College of New Zealand Limited	7499	Context   Withdrawal of accreditation to deliver the New Zealand Diploma in Construction (Level 6), with strands in Construction Management, and Quantity Surveying.    Conditions on the New Zealand Diploma in Construction (Level 6), with strands in Construction Management, and Quantity Surveying.     Description  NZQA is withdrawing accreditation to provide the New Zealand Diploma in Construction (Level 6), with strands in Construction Management, and Quantity Surveying.   Withdrawal of accreditation will occur once teaching has been completed and learner results have been reported in July 2026. With Imperial’s agreement, NZQA is imposing conditions on its accreditation to deliver this programme.   The conditions require Imperial to:  stop enrolments in the programme transfer the learners not approved to be taught out to other education providers that offer the New Zealand Diploma in Construction  have pre-assessment moderation of all remaining modules completed by NZQA, at Imperial’s cost  appoint an NZQA approved moderation partner to undertake 100% post moderation of all learner assessments yet to be delivered work with its moderation partner to develop and implement an NZQA approved capstone assessment to assess learner achievement to date.	Withdrawal of accreditation to occur once teaching to approved learners has been completed and learner results have been reported in July 2026.    Conditions imposed on 3 November 2025.

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Exemption conditions (for example under 348(1) of the Act) are not published as they do not relate to provider non-compliance, corrective action or intervention.

Conditions imposed when granting programme or micro-credential accreditation or consent to assess are not published for the same reason.

About statutory actions

Statutory actions are actions taken in accordance with the provisions of the Education and Training Act 2020 (the Act).

NZQA has the legal power to use a range of statutory actions, where relevant and applicable, when a non-university TEO or Code signatory is not compliant with:

the Act
NZQA rules, made under section 452 of the Act, or
the Education (Pastoral Care of Tertiary and International Learners) Code of Practice 2021 (the Code).

When possible, we work informally with organisations in the first instance to address non-compliance. We do this by issuing a reminder, formal letter, or requesting an action plan.

If an informal approach is unsuccessful, or the non-compliance is more serious or poses an immediate risk to students or the public, we may escalate cases to a statutory action.

The Education and Training Act 2020 (external link)

NZQA rules

The Code

The statutory actions we use

Compliance notice

For TEOs

Directs the organisation to do (or stop doing) something specific. This may be in relation to a statutory approval, conditions on work-based training, or a requirement to provide information.

Example: Make sure student files are accurate and complete by a given date.

For Workforce Development Councils (WDCs)

Directs the WDC to do (or stop doing) something specific in relation to a prescribed quality assurance requirement, or to address concerns set out in a quality assurance improvement notice.

TEOs and WDCs are required to address the content of the compliance notice within the timeframe specified.

A compliance notice is listed on this page from the date of issue to a maximum of 5 working days after it is closed.

Conditions imposed

Specifies constraints a TEO will be subject to. Conditions imposed can be time-bound or indefinite.

Examples: Submit extra assessment materials for moderation and demonstrate improved moderation results, or (for Code signatories) stop enrolling new international students.

Conditions imposed are listed on this page from when a condition is imposed to a maximum of 5 working days after it is revoked.

Withdrawal

Withdrawal of consent to assess against standards, micro-credential approval, micro-credential accreditation, programme approval or programme accreditation.

A withdrawal is listed on this page for 6 months after the notice is issued.

Removal of Code signatory status

Prevents the Code signatory from enrolling any new international students, or continuing to have its existing international students enrolled.

Removal of Code signatory status is listed on this page for 6 months after the notice is issued.

Cancellation of registration (PTE only)

Removal of a private training establishment’s registration.

Cancellation of registration is listed on this page for 6 months after the notice is issued.

Quality assurance improvement notice (WDC only)

Sets out any concerns NZQA has about a WDC's systems, practices and procedures. It also specifies a reasonable timeframe in which we expect the WDC to address our concerns.

If a quality assurance improvement notice is not complied with inside its specified timeframe, we may issue a compliance notice to address its concerns.

Public notices

The notices published on this page are not statutory actions but contain information that NZQA would like the public to be aware of.

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