New Zealand is an outward-facing country that has developed an innovative,flexible and robust qualifications framework and a high-trust,high-accountability quality assurance system to underpin it.This allows New Zealand learners to be recognised for individual learning outcomes,clusters of learning,and whole qualifications,and to take these achievements with them throughout their life.New Zealand is working to give learners true domestic and global recognition and portability of their educational achievements,as well as a qua.lification system that meets their needs in a rapidly changing world.