Key Competencies and Draft Descriptive Standards
These discussion documents have been developed in line with the Tertiary Education Strategy 2002-2007 where the government focused on the skill development necessary for participation in society. If you are unable to open either pdf document below please tertiary.strategy@minedu.govt.nz and a hard copy can be posted to you.
Key Competencies in Tertiary Education
Key competencies are the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values needed by everyone across a variety of life contexts. It is hoped that the Key Competencies discussion document will generate reflection on core areas for learning in tertiary education programmes and qualifications and the implications of this for teaching and assessment. It is also hoped that government agencies will be able to use the framework in policy and operational work to achieve consistency about desirable learning outcomes across the school and tertiary education sectors.
Draft Descriptive Standards
The draft of Descriptive Standards has been developed for reading, writing, listening, speaking and mathematics. These are outcome descriptions of adult competency in language, literacy and numeracy. They are `context free'.