The Government is pushing on with NCEA changes as planned despite critics calling for a pause as just a third of students in a pilot programme passed the new writing standard. The Government has set new literacy, numeracy, Te Reo Matatini (Māori language literacy), and pāngarau (Māori language numeracy) standards that will need to be taken alongside NCEA. The standards are part of a series of seven changes to NCEA announced in February 2020, the most significant reform of NCEA since the qualification was introduced in 2002. "The results from the pilot show that changes are needed before the changes to NCEA are rolled out," she said. National Party education spokeswoman Erica Stanford said the pilot results were "depressing" and needed to be addressed.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 22, 2022 00:29 UTC