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This article appears in Chapter 3 - Boundaryless TET, which presents different approaches to aspects of technician education and training (TET) which might lend themselves to adaptation or adoption in other places or cultures. Its purpose is to explain the significant changes to education in New Zealand begun in 1990 with the establishment of the Education and Training Support Agency and, in particular, the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA). The NZQA was given a mandate to simplify qualifications for secondary school, post-school education and training so that they had a relationship to each other in a way that was understandable to all students and the public. Doyle explains the context of the changes and the regulatory environment. He describes the situation prior to 1990 and then looks at the policy and the theory of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). The range and scope of the NQF is explained and its connection to the Industry Training Act and Industry Training Organisations (ITOs). Finally, he presents the debate that has since arisen on the value of the NZQA approach to competency-based qualifications as against the level of support from industry. He describes the policy changes of 1996 as a compromise which slowed down the development of the NQF but he concludes that with the end of the ideological debate it should be possible to implement a sensible national framework which is true to the original intention.