Qualifications
Why get a qualification?
Qualifications are a good way to demonstrate achievement and can help you to progress further in your career. There are also further benefits in pursuing qualifications through training that is provided within your own industry.
- Industry training is flexible and means that you can fit your training to your own needs.
- You can gain a wide range of qualifications, or tailor your training to one particular skill.
How does it work?
Industry training is based on unit standards and qualifications on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). The size of these unit standards is measured in credits and the number of credits you need to gain a qualificaton may vary.
A unit standard describes the skills and knowledge required for a specific task or job. Each National Qualification will have a specific list of unit standards required to complete that qualification.
A particular qualification will also describe the "level" that it sits on the qualifications framework. As an example, Levels 7 to 10 are the equivalent of university and post graduate degrees.
What qualification?
There is a great deal of information available about the types of qualifications you can gain in the various seafood industry sectors. You can browse the following pages for links to specific qualifications on the New Zealand Qualifications Authority's (NZQA) website: