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 ...
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 ...
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 ...