What is the DFQM?

New organisation to lead Dyslexia-Friendly Quality Mark programme

The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) and Learning MATTERS have announced an important update to management of the Dyslexia-Friendly Quality Mark (DFQM).

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Dyslexia-Friendly Quality Mark standards

To achieve the DFQM, organisations needed to meet standards that measured their practice in four key areas:

  • leadership and management
  • the quality of teaching and learning
  • the teaching and learning environment provided for learners
  • the quality of the organisation's relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Organisations needed to submit documentary evidence that they had met the standards. 

The DFQM WAGOLL provides examples of what a dyslexia-friendly organisation will look like.

For a deeper look at the evidence underpinning the DFQM, read the Literature Review.

 

 

Supporting Documents

Literature review

DFQM | Underpinning evidence

Review of evidence underpinning the New Zealand Dyslexia-friendly Quality Mark.

(PDF, 818 KB)

  • 7 July 2026
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Information sheet

DFQM | WAGOLL

'What a Good One Looks Like' – the features of a dyslexia-friendly organisation.

 

(PDF, 302 KB)

  • 7 July 2026
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