Previous Events

Past AQA Events

17 November 2023
Wellington
Tertiary Student Voice Summit 2023

Other National & International Events 

13 October 2023
Brisbane and online
Student Voice Australasia Symposium

2-4 November 2023
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Asia Pacific Quality Network Academic Conference 

8-11 November 2023
Utrecht, The Netherlands
International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (issotl) Conference

Quality Forums

The 2020 Quality Forum was held via Zoom on 20 November 2020. Wellbeing and engagement during the Covid-19 pandemic, remote reviews, impact of academic audit, maintaining assessment standards and academic integrity and Re-engaging with academic audit were discussed at the Forum. The Summary Report from the Forum is available here.

Programmes and summaries from previous Quality Fora can be found below.
Programme for the 2019 Quality Forum.
A summary of the 2018 Quality Forum is available here.

Student Voice Summits

The fifth annual Student Voice Summit, jointly organised by NZUSA, Te Mana Ākonga, Tauira Pasifika, the New Zealand International Students’ Association and AQA, was held on 19 November 2020. The Summit was hosted by the Ministry of Education, Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga. The programme for the day is available here and the Student Voice Handover Guide is available here. Further information about this event is available here.

Information about the fourth annual Student Voice Summit, held on 14 November 2019 and jointly hosted by NZUSA, Te Mana Ākonga, Tauira Pasifika, the New Zealand International Students’ Association and AQA can be found here. The third annual Student Voice Summit, jointly hosted by NZUSA, Te Mana Ākonga and AQA, was held on 4th October 2018. Information about this event is available here.

Cycle 6 Self-Review Workshops 

AQA piloted a Cycle 6 Self-Review workshop in Wellington in June 2019. This was followed by two more workshops in Auckland and Dunedin at the start of 2020. Slides from the workshop are available here.
AQA has partnered with the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand to develop a short course on the iQualify platform. The course covers Cycle 6 Self-Review topics discussed during theses face-to-face workshops. Please contact the Executive Director to ‘enrol’.

Academic Integrity Workshops

The Academic Quality Agency for New Zealand universities, Universities New Zealand and the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, in conjunction with the Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, delivered two Academic Integrity workshops in Auckland and Christchurch on the 4th and 5th February 2020.
Slides from the workshops are available here.  

TEQSA Academic Integrity Toolkit Live 

Following the workshops in February 2020, the TEQSA Academic Integrity Toolkit is now online at https://www.teqsa.gov.au/academic-integrity-toolkit  
This is a “beta” version and feedback would be appreciated. Feedback can be forwarded to: academic.integrity@teqsa.gov.au

Enhancement Theme Symposium

AQA's second Enhancement Theme Symposium was held on 1st November 2019. Further information about the day can be found here.
AQA’s first Enhancement Theme Symposium was held on 31 October 2018.  Further information about the day can be found here.

AQA's 25th Anniversary

The Academic Quality Agency for New Zealand Universities (AQA) celebrated its 25th Anniversary in November 2018.
A copy of the commemorative booklet can be found here, and includes reflections on AQA and the New Zealand Universities Academic Audit Unit (NZUAAU) from current and former Chairs and Directors. If you would like a hard copy of this booklet, please email admin@aqa.ac.nz. 

Support for Quality

AQA’s ‘Support for Quality’ Conference was held annually from 2013 to 2017. Each year, the Conference included presentations and discussion sessions spanning a wide range of topics under an overarching theme of academic quality.

Further information on past Conferences can be found below:

2017 conference

AQA’s Support for Quality conference was held on Thursday 28 September, 2017 at Te Wharewake o Pōneke on the Wellington waterfront. Click here to see presentations and photos from this event.

2016 conference

AQA’s Support for Quality conference was held on Thursday 13 October, 2016 at Te Wharewake o Pōneke on the Wellington waterfront.  

2015 conference

The AQA 2015 Support for Quality Conference was held on Thursday 1 October 2015. The venue for this event was the Royal Society of New Zealand, 11 Turnbull Street, Thorndon, Wellington. 

2014 conference

The AQA 2014 Support for Quality Conference was held on Wednesday 10 September 2014. The venue for this event was the Royal Society of New Zealand, 11 Turnbull Street, Thorndon, Wellington. The theme for the day was "Challenges and Opportunities in Internal Quality Assurance". Click to see the programme and photos from the 2014 event.

2013 conference

The first AQA Support for Quality Conference was held on Wednesday 1 May 2013 in Auckland. Click to see the programme and photos from the 2013 event.