A "fear of failure" among pupils is one of the reasons why a Dunedin secondary school has scrapped level 1 NCEA exams. St Hilda's Collegiate School acting principal Judy Maw said it had proposed a ...
Half the teens who failed NCEA level 1 did so only because of new literacy and numeracy requirements. The remainder did not ...
New research from the Education Review Office (ERO) has found that NCEA Level 1 needs reform. In April this year, Minister Stanford requested ERO review NCEA Level 1. An increasing number of schools ...
Principals, maths teachers and students have all complained last week's NCEA Level 1 algebra MCAT exam was much harder than they were expecting.STACY SQUIRES / STUFF Some NCEA students were reduced to ...
A proposal to completely overhaul NCEA will stop some students suffering the "perverse consequences" of a system focused on passing at any cost, says the country's secondary school union. Education ...
A top Auckland private school has so little confidence in the new NCEA Level 1 curriculum it is ditching the qualification in favour of its own Year 11 diploma next year. St Cuthbert’s College ...