Countries pursuing major education reforms have often seen demand for alternative learning grow. Can NZ avoid repeating that pattern?
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If these changes go ahead, parents should be asking how their child is moved into an academic or vocational track – and who gets to make the final call.
By choosing to offer the Cambridge exam system and publicly criticising NCEA, a group of prominent schools subtly helped shape the government’s new education policy.
Filling the skills gap through immigration denies young New Zealanders a pathway to meaningful employment. Only proper vocational training reform can fix that.
The end of NCEA marks a return to a more standardised, exam-focused way of learning. But for some students, successfully finishing high school just got harder.
A ministerial working group is charged with identifying what knowledge matters in secondary school English. But we need a national conversation about what that means in a modern, multicultural society.
Key education policy decisions in the early 2000s have not produced the desired results. But broad bipartisan agreement is now needed to give children and teachers the greatest chance of success.
Schools are back, but NCEA level 1 media studies soon won’t be — at a time when media literacy is more vital than ever.
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Auckland University of Technology
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