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Awesome Admin

Dana joined us mid 2015 to offer awesome administration support, including magic MYOB simplicity. For the last few years Dana's focus has been on family, as well as various Committee roles including Treasurer of the school's PTA. 

Dana's previous experience includes sales and design in the printing industry as well as production and office duties.  And she still likes to keep up her Graphic Design when she’s not sorting out QED’s operations! 

Qualifications to date include computing and business administration, in which she also has extensive experience. Outside the office Dana enjoys playing tennis, paddle boarding and camping.

Contact Dana:

admin@qedassociates.co.nz

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Andy has extensive experience in quality management of education and training both in the public and private sectors. He has personally assisted over 100 training providers with a range of quality provision and compliance issues such as NZQA Registration; Course Approval and Accreditation; TEC funding issues; and Code of Practice for the Pastoral Care of International Students applications and reviews. One of Andy’s specialism is educational quality review, and Andy has enabled many providers to refine their systems so they were able to gain and maintain Category 1 status.

Andy’s extensive experience as a trainer and educator began with his engineering background and he makes any training easily accessible and relevant to the participant so they enjoy his very practical, hands-on approach to training. Many will tell you that learning by participation characterises Andy's workshops. He teaches a full range of subjects including: Train the Trainer, Assessment & Moderation systems, Course design, review and evaluation, Management skills and Communication.

Andy is also very strong in assessment and moderation and is currently the National Moderator for Adult Education and Training, Generic Education and Training and Educational Administration.

Contact Andy:

aleader@qedassociates.co.nz

Feedback from Clients

Andy's knowledge of Govt agency requirements and his ability to clarify the seeming unfathomable made our application smooth sailing.

His manner is so gentle and supportive that the pre-audit nerves were quickly soothed.

We come back to Andy for all our compliance requirements: he has been ably assisting us now for 9 years.

Great presenter. Very supportive. Nice and clear. Knows his stuff! Plenty of activity. Excellent training session...

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During Pieter's 20 years in the tertiary sector he has helped new and existing tertiary education organisations achieve success with NZQA accreditations, degree applications and monitoring, programme approvals & changes, self assessment and External Evaluation & Review.

Pieter has successfully assisted several organisations achieve Category 1 EER outcomes, as well as TEC funding applications, Investment Plans and Single Data Return reporting. He has been the National Manager of a SAC-funded PTE that had international students, ESOL and foundation courses as well as multi-year qualifications including a Bachelors degree.

Along with quality assurance and communication within organisations, he is skilled and experienced in marketing. He is specially interested in stakeholder engagement to ensure optimum educational outcomes and how the quality focus within TEOs aligns with current NZQA emphasis on Self Assessment Capability and Educational Performance. He has read and analysed hundreds of EER reports.

Pieter has a proven record of providing practical training and documentation to ensure staff engage with relevant measures and procedures. By identifying shared goals and streamlining reporting he has helped bring positive outcomes for many organisations.

He has run workshops on self assessment and EER since 2011, including at several conferences.

Contact Pieter: pieter@qedassociates.co.nz or 021 734967

Feedback from clients

Appreciated Pieter's honesty and humour.

Found QED’s input into our EER preparation process extremely valuable. We especially appreciated your advice on the areas that we needed to highlight in terms of organisational best practice that aligned with what would be deemed significant by NZQA.

Thank you for your assistance in prepping us for our EER your help was invaluble

Our staff were very positive about yesterday's session and are starting to feel much more confident about what sort of results talk to get used to; it will no doubt have benefits beyond the EER itself. Thank you for the effort and thought you put into our team.

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Warren has a background in teaching English language overseas and in New Zealand, including Italy and England teaching international students from all parts of the world. He has also coordinated new settler education at a polytechnic in Auckland.

Warren then moved into mainstream staff development, responsible for training teachers at polytechnics and private training establishments as well as groups of teachers from a range of countries, including Thailand, Malaysia and Korea.

Warren left the public tertiary sector to found QED Associates in 1996, with a group of other education specialists. Since then, he has facilitated teacher training and provided a broad range of consultancy services to educational organisations. His special interests in adult education include lesson planning, student-centred learning and standards-based assessment. In educational consultancy, Warren has particular strengths in course and programme design, resource development, programme evaluation and organisational audit. His extensive experience ensures a high success rate in achieving positive outcomes for clients.
Contact Warren:
wshephard@qedassociates.co.nz

Feedback from clients

Excellent facilitator - involved us in interesting activities along the way

Gave me the skills to actually get going and produce a course

Well structured and in easy to digest stages with lots of practice at each stage

Training Facilitator and Consultant.

I bring over 20 years of experience to QED in planning, teaching and assessing in the New Zealand Education System.
I began my journey as a Primary trained teacher facilitating across all age groups, but in my last 3 years, I have worked alongside Student and Provisionally Registered teachers, coaching them and designing and overseeing their mentoring programme within schools.  This allowed me to dive deeper into planning and assessment to ensure their facilitation process met the needs of their ākonga and through observations that their professional practice met the NZ Council Code and Standards for Teachers.

I am excited to collaborate with QED, enhance their workshops, and deliver the NZ Certificate in Adult and Tertiary Training in 2023.

Andrew comes from the health sector and has a background in social services. Roles include the training of Health Staff and implementation of a National Health Policy for hard-to-reach populations. He has provided education, training, and self-development workshops for at-risk youth, individuals, and groups.

With his early education somewhat troubled, Andrew has recently discovered his dyslexia and completed a post-graduate diploma in Health Science at the University of Auckland.

He is passionate about providing services that are responsive to people’s needs, encouraging stakeholders to think and respond in ways that empower the people they serve. This vision has served him well in roles within his Local Board, in the construction industry, and as a Mental Health Social Worker.

Andrew is an involved father of three young adults of Samoan descent and has a strong appreciation for celebrating diversity and being culturally responsive at work and home. Outside the office, he enjoys involvement in his local community, time with family, and learning to paddle board when time and weather allow.