Every NCEA Level 1 assessment unit – the achievement standards – will be replaced from next year. The new standards were published last month. The Ministry of Education has been running workshops to ...

“Perhaps one of NCEA’s excellent features will prove to be its ability to highlight specific areas of deficiencies in teaching and understanding”, says Joy Quigley, Executive Director of Independent ...

A new proposal would replace NCEA Level 1 with a foundational award, and change the assessment system for Levels 2 & 3. The proposal has a focus on structured learning, with compulsory language and ...

The government wants secondary schools to play a bigger role in preparing students for the working world by building vocational education and training (VET) into the curriculum. But a paradigm shift ...