Education (Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority) Act 2014
sec.15Certification
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sec.15 Certification
The authority has the following functions relating to certification— reviewing, and making recommendations to the Minister about, the requirements for issuing certificates of achievement, and statements of results, prescribed under a regulation; deciding procedures, and carrying out arrangements, for the assessment of persons in school subjects that are certification studies; approving work programs for school subjects that are certification studies, for use in the schools that developed the programs; issuing certificates of achievement, and statements of results, prescribed under a regulation; giving a person, on request, a copy of any of the following documents previously issued for the person— a certificate, about the completion of the person’s studies, under the repealed Education Act 1964 or the repealed Education (Senior Secondary School Studies) Act 1988 ; a certificate of achievement; a statement of results; recognising the results of a person in certification studies, prescribed under a regulation, that are not school subjects. The authority has the functions mentioned in subsection (1) for recognised schools. (sec.15-ssec.1) The authority has the following functions relating to certification— reviewing, and making recommendations to the Minister about, the requirements for issuing certificates of achievement, and statements of results, prescribed under a regulation; deciding procedures, and carrying out arrangements, for the assessment of persons in school subjects that are certification studies; approving work programs for school subjects that are certification studies, for use in the schools that developed the programs; issuing certificates of achievement, and statements of results, prescribed under a regulation; giving a person, on request, a copy of any of the following documents previously issued for the person— a certificate, about the completion of the person’s studies, under the repealed Education Act 1964 or the repealed Education (Senior Secondary School Studies) Act 1988 ; a certificate of achievement; a statement of results; recognising the results of a person in certification studies, prescribed under a regulation, that are not school subjects. (sec.15-ssec.2) The authority has the functions mentioned in subsection (1) for recognised schools.
- (a) reviewing, and making recommendations to the Minister about, the requirements for issuing certificates of achievement, and statements of results, prescribed under a regulation;
- (b) deciding procedures, and carrying out arrangements, for the assessment of persons in school subjects that are certification studies;
- (c) approving work programs for school subjects that are certification studies, for use in the schools that developed the programs;
- (d) issuing certificates of achievement, and statements of results, prescribed under a regulation;