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Academy Support Centre . Andy Blackmur & Peter Edge. June 2014. Topics ASC. We are here to help! Instructor Professional Development Academy Success. Growth for New Zealand New Courses Available ITQ Developments. Instructor Trainer refresher frequency Advances in NZQA mappings Q & A.
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Academy Support Centre Andy Blackmur & Peter Edge June 2014
Topics ASC. We are here to help!Instructor Professional DevelopmentAcademy Success. Growth for New ZealandNew Courses AvailableITQ Developments. Instructor Trainer refresher frequencyAdvances in NZQA mappings Q & A
Who will you call? ASC! • Christchurch “Academy Support Centre” • Help Desk Support Pilot Completed • Please call us for all of your problems (Netspaceetc) • We have tools and access to the International Help Desk • You get to rate us on our service
Instructor Development (GIR) • Current and continuously under development • Contributions from around the world • Excellent resources for teaching CCNA R&S • APJ Instructor Forum every Thursday (5pm NZ) • Do we need our own version?
APAC at a glance 839,000 Cumulative students 2,510 Instructors 187,000 Active Students 165,000 Cisco Certification Ready 93% Obtained a Job and / or Education Opportunity 890 Academies 29% Females
New Zealand at a glance 19,139 Cumulative students 79 Instructors 3,997 Active Student’s 13,466 Cisco Certification Ready 27 Academies 91% (Regional) Obtained a Job and / or Education Opportunity 11% Females
Pacific Islands at a glance 23,725 Cumulative students 778 Active students 20 Instructors 672 Cisco Certification Ready 91%(Regional) Obtained a Job and / or Education Opportunity 6 Academies 32 % Females
Australia at a glance 123,689 Cumulative students 560 Instructors 19,638 Active students 82,488 Cisco Certification Ready 91% (Regional) Obtained a Job and / or Education Opportunity 158 Academies 10% Females
New Courses Available • Self Enrol Courses • Collaborative Efforts. Voice Primer. Cloud Primer • Partner Courses
ITQ Renewal Criteria • ITQ : reminder of ITQ renewal for Instructor Trainers that qualified before 31 July 2013. • Their renewal date is 31 July 2014. Renewal criteria is to maintain a valid, CCNA certification and to have instructed min 3 classes for the last 12 months. • If they are not able to meet the latter requirement, there are equivalent IPD activities that they can consider participating. Contact Emma. • Please treat this information with high importance!
ITQ Developments • There are developments in the delivery of the ITQ examination • Virtual Delivery in the near future • More information soon
Advances in NZQA mappings • TROC/MROC are developing new Level 4, 5 and 6 ICT qualifications. • Ian Patterson has been involved with the Level 6 Diploma. • The Level 5 Diploma is common for most. IT Essentials would cover a paper in this. • The original level 6 Networking qualification for our area had provisions for 30 credits of networking with the rest common • It has been agreed that Networking will have a separate qualification with possibly 90 credits of networking and the other 30 credits common. • Suggestions are 4 CCNA papers plus CCNA Security, and CCNA Voice or CCNA Wireless or equivalents