Education Minister Nikki Kaye has issued a "please explain" to the NZ Qualifications Authority after it posted a plagiarised exam paper on its website as an "exemplar". But NZ History Teachers Association treasurer Greg Burnard said memorising previous years' exemplars was "reasonably widespread across the country". Kaye said she would ask NZ Qualifications Authority chairwoman Sue Suckling to explain, and was considering an external review of the authority's processes. "I am aware that in the maths review NZQA commissioned an independent panel to review the matters." Labour education spokesman Chris Hipkins said NZQA "do seem to have some quality control issues when it comes to exams".

Source: New Zealand Herald June 21, 2017 17:02 UTC