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Create Date:8/09/2006   4:44:42p.m.
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Subject:Re: Factual Accuracy from Wellpark
Dear Phillip
Thank you for your email re factual accuracy.
All the best for your endeavours ahead and enjoy that curry in India!
Kind regards
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Dear Lesley,
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Grace is not here today and has asked me to email you to confirm the
factual accuracy of the report. This I am doing.
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Thank you for the report. We will work through the issues and get back
to you later in the year. Like you, I too am away in India for a month.
Phillip Cottingham ND BHSc
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Wellpark College of Natural Therapies
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Subject:Re: Degree Programme
Thank you for your email.  I am out of the office until 24th October 06.  
If you need assistance from a Course Approvals Advisor before 24th October, please email 
[email address] and another advisor will be able to help you.
Many thanks
Lesley Edgeley-Page
Advisor - Course Approvals and Accreditation
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Dear Lesley,
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It has been some weeks now since we received the report and we have been
utilising it to determine the strategy that we are going to adopt to
create a programme that will satisfy the requirements and work for the
College. As you can appreciate, this is not an easy task with complex
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issues to be sorted and we want to get it right without too much going
back and forth to the NZQA. My questions to you are, "Is there a time
frame in which this would be expected to be completed?" and "Does the
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Phillip Cottingham ND BHSc
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Subject:Re: Degree Programme
Dear Phillip
Thank you for your email and my apologies for not getting back to you sooner. I just returned to work yesterday after 6 
weeks leave - India was very exciting and intriguing!  
There is no timeframe set by NZQA for your response to the requirements, although if the timeframe went on for years 
the current material would lose currency.  There also a danger of panel members disappearing (overseas or 
somewhere) and it can be complicated replacing them.  But, as you say, there are complex issues to be sorted and I 
agree that it would be better to take time to sort those out properly so there isn't a lot of to-ing and fro-ing to NZQA.
I would suggest that you begin work on the task asap, work out your own timeframe and send me that.  It will help with 
our planning this end.  It would also be useful if you were to keep me posted from time to time about your progress.
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Dear Lesley,
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It has been some weeks now since we received the report and we have been
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utilising it to determine the strategy that we are going to adopt to
create a programme that will satisfy the requirements and work for the
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College. As you can appreciate, this is not an easy task with complex
issues to be sorted and we want to get it right without too much going
back and forth to the NZQA. My questions to you are, "Is there a time
frame in which this would be expected to be completed?" and "Does the
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Po Box 78-229
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Auckland 1002
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Subject:Degree application
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Dear Phillip
Thank you for your email of 20 February 2007 regarding your degree application.  Please accept my apologies for the 
delay in this response, but I have been away.
I'm sorry if you found the letter I sent you in response to yours, to be vague and non-specific.  The requirements in the 
panel report were not just set by NZQA but the whole panel of experts.  As the NZQA representative and a panel 
member, I cannot give you specific answers and thereby assist you in the development of your programme.   It is the 
panel's task to evaluate and judge your application against the gazetted criteria.  None of us on the panel can advise 
you and then judge that same application.  It would become a conflict of interest.
As I recommended in the letter, you should seek such advice elsewhere, preferably from someone who has had 
experience in the development of a degree programme.    
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In regard to the comment about two visits, if your re-submission takes a long time the panel may have to re-visit as the 
original application would have lost currency.  It is usual to apply for approval and accreditation at the same time.  I 
suggest that you do so, because to split it into two processes, may well result in an extra visit.
I hope that this helps and all the best with your endeavours.
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Lesley Edgeley-Page
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PO Box 160, Wellington, 6015, New Zealand
Telephone: 04 463 3188
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