Schools that are a signatory to the Education (Pastoral Care of Tertiary and International Learners) Code of Practice 2021 are required to carry out and document continuous self-review of their performance to identify how well their practices achieve the required outcomes and processes of the Code. Self-review is a quality assurance process assessing strengths and areas for improvement with the aim of capability building and continuous improvement.
By regularly assessing information about our learner wellbeing and our safety practices we can make ongoing improvements to our pastoral care, our decision-making, and our implementation of the Code.
Paparoa Street School attests that we are undertaking this self-review (even if we do not currently have enrolled international learners) by submitting an annual self-review attestation form to NZQA by the required due date. We keep a record of our self-review (including the evidence supporting our conclusions, and any report or action plan) for our own quality assurance purposes, and because we may be asked to support our attestation by submitting a self-review report and other information for external evaluation and review.
An ERO review evaluates the overall quality of education provided for international learners at our school. The evaluation audits our self-review and assesses:
It is important for schools to regularly review the content of their SchoolDocs international module and ensure that the tailored content remains up to date.
As part of our continuous self-review of our performance against the Code, we check, at least annually, that the tailored content of our SchoolDocs international module remains up to date.
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Your SchoolDocs topic
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Tailored information to check
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Model site version
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If a link is inactive, you don't have the topic.
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Compare your topic with the highlighted wording on the Model site.
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International Learners Policy
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- Who is responsible for keeping up to date with Code of Practice requirements and guidelines?
- Are you a member of SIEBA?
- If you'd like to add your own International Learners policy or statement here, email it to us. See the Model site for more information.
- If you link to your own International Learners Policy in this topic, is it up to date? Let us know if you'd like to remove it or replace it.
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International Marketing and Promotion
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- Do you actively market and promote your school to international learners and their families?
- If yes, is the wording about marketing tools up to date?
- If no, do you have/want our wording about not actively recruiting?
- Who is responsible for ensuring that the information provided to prospective students is monitored and updated, at least annually?
- How do you proactively consider and evaluate international learner information needs?
- Does this topic link to your website or a document? If so, is this linked information up to date? If no, email us the latest version or ask to have it removed.
- Has any of the other tailored information changed? Check the wording on your topic against the highlighted wording on the Model site.
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International Education Agents
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- If you have this topic, is the tailored information still accurate?
- If you have this topic, but don't use agents, let us know, and we can give you an alternative topic with a statement about what you do if approached by an agent.
- If you weren't using agents, but now are, let us know if you'd like this topic.
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International Enrolment
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- Is your enrolment application and contract up to date? Do you want these documents to be linked to your SchoolDocs site or hosted elsewhere?
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International Offers
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- Do you have a statement under the first set of bullet points about how your school assesses English language proficiency and capability? Let us know if you'd like to update the wording, remove the statement, or add a statement if you don't have one.
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International Learner Fees
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- Is your fees information up to date?
- We have simplified this topic – check your fees topic and let us know if you'd like to change to the new version (as shown on the Model site).
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International Learner Insurance
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- Has the person responsible changed?
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Immigration Matters
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- Has the person responsible changed?
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International Orientation
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- Check the highlighted wording on the Model site against the wording in your topic and let us know if you need changes.
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International Learner Orientation Schedule
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- Have the responsible staff members changed? Check the highlighted wording on the Model site against the wording in your topic and let us know if you need changes.
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International Safety and Wellbeing
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- Have the support people or other details in this topic changed? Check the highlighted wording on the Model site against the wording in your topic and let us know if you need changes.
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International Learner Attendance
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- Who follows up on unacceptable absence of international learners? Tell us if this needs updating.
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Accommodation
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- What types of accommodation do you allow? If your allowances have changed or you can't see a statement about this, tell us. See the highlighted sample wording on the Model site.
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Accommodation and Welfare Interviews
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- If you allow international learners to live with residential caregivers, you will have this topic.
- Has the frequency of interviews or the person responsible for conducting them changed? Check the highlighted wording on the Model site against the wording in your topic and let us know if you need changes.
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Behaviour Expectations and Disciplinary Actions for International Learners
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- Check the highlighted wording on the Model site against the wording in your topic and let us know if you need changes.
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International Learners at Risk or with Additional Needs
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- Who is informed if an international learner needs to be referred to other agencies, and discusses additional support as appropriate? Tell us if this needs updating.
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International Student Visitors (formerly Group Students)
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- If you host group students, you will have this topic. Check the highlighted wording on the Model site against the wording in your topic and let us know if you need changes.
- If you have your own more detailed group policy, is it up to date and do you want it linked here?
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Staff Training
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- You may have a sentence at the bottom of this topic about who at your school undertakes professional development and shares it with other school staff. Tell us if you need to update this statement, would like it removed, or would like to add the statement. See the highlighted sample wording on the Model site.
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International Learner Fee Protection and Refunds
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- Is the information about how your fee protection and refund policy is provided accurate?
- If you link to a fee protection/refund document, is it current? If not, email us the latest version or ask to have it removed.
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International Learner Concerns and Complaints
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- Check the highlighted wording on the Model site against the wording in your topic and let us know if you need changes.
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International Learners Resources
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- Check your school-specific international learners resources are up to date.
- If your resources are hosted in this topic, send us any documents that need updating.
- If your resources are hosted elsewhere, do you need to update a statement about where they are kept?
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International Learners Review (this topic)
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- Does the statement at the top of this topic about who is responsible for overseeing your self-review need updating?
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The release history is a record of changes made to a SchoolDocs Core topic as the result of an internal or scheduled review. The date indicates when a change was made. If you have a customised topic, it may not have received the updates described. Release history links are kept for five years, then archived.
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