NZ associates with WES on qualifications

The settlement, which was signed in late March, will see WES carry out a qualification verification provider, supporting migrants with credentials from overseas changeover to New Zealand’s procedure. 

“WES has been verifying tutorial qualifications for decades, and we’ll leverage this working experience to the gain of New Zealand and our newest citizens,” NZQA main govt Grant Klinkum said. 

WES, which runs as a non-earnings aiding condition policy and design packages as properly as analyzing skills, will get the job done with New Zealand’s government on the job as section of a “broader push to fortify the nation’s economy”. 

The project will come less than the identify WES World-wide Document Verification Report, and will “ensure a extra efficient process… for those people seeking to make New Zealand home”. 

The Report, in accordance to WES, has been particularly made to “expedite services” for migrants who would qualify for a resident visa below the “skilled migrant” category.

“WES is honoured to partner with the New Zealand Qualifications Authority by featuring a WES World Data Verification Report that will permit migrants to more rapidly be a part of the country’s workforce,” stated Esther Benjamin, main government officer and government director of WES. 

“[It] will empower migrants to extra speedily be a part of the country’s workforce”

The new hard work by New Zealand’s qualification authority to ease the process for incoming migrants, such as international learners, comes immediately after it was exposed that the place may well be on goal to match its 2019 whole of $3.7bn injected into the overall economy from the sector. 

“[Our] working experience has taught us how critical verification is for people looking for to add their skills to new international locations and communities. It has also taught us that migrant expertise is essential to supporting economic expansion,” Benjamin ongoing.

The New Zealand Qualifications Authority was notably one particular of the initially bodies to formally recognise micro-credentials in 2019.