this paper. 5.1 System Requirements Identified in Case Study The requirements developed for the PTE centred on the student mentoring component of their Student Management System. The aim of this subsystem is to provide student supervisor's with a mechanism that allows them guide their students in terms of the options available to them to complete NZQA qualifications. The National Qualifications Framework (NQF) is a flexible but complex structure that allows students to `mix and match' unit standards depending upon the qualification requirements, the electives chosen by the student and their particular strengths and interests. In order for supervisors to provide effective mentoring, they need to know what unit standards the student has already achieved and what other combinations of unit standards are required to successfully complete their qualification. In order to achieve this goal, the existing system requires significant modification so as to allow the NQF framework to be mapped into their database. This will enable the requirements of each qualification that the PTE delivers to be recorded into its database. Once completed, the specific requirements of a qualification can then be matched against actual student achievement and the various options available for completion could then be determined and used to guide the student