Pupils at Dunedin’s Kaikorai Valley College stream into the school hall for an NCEA exam. A colleague of mine working in education recently sent me a New Zealand Herald article by Simon Collins, ''Dumbing down a generation: Performance of NZ schoolchildren plummeting''. How do we take the best of NCEA, and also create a more dynamic learning environment? He goes on to say: ''The best teachers use their character, creativity and inspiration to trigger children's instinct to learn. So why are character, creativity and inspiration suppressed by a stifling regime of micromanagement?''

Source: Otago Daily Times March 21, 2017 17:26 UTC