New Zealand Herald, 19 April – One of New Zealand’s biggest schools for international students has repeatedly failed to meet minimum educational standards and there are doubts over whether many of its qualifications are genuine, according to two damning reports by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority.
The reports show NZQA has taken the unusual step of placing four statutory conditions on Cornell Institute of Business and Technology, because of concerns about the legitimacy of its cookery programme and serious doubts over its assessment practices in both cookery and business qualifications.
However Cornell director Richard Thornton told the Herald yesterday that because the school had made a large number of changes since the NZQA reports, “Cornell is able to vouch for the authenticity of all its qualifications”. Read more…
