New Zealand's fourth-biggest school, Macleans College, has joined a small stampede away from the first year of the national qualification system as school principals take fright at proposed reforms.

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 ...

Wellington Girls’ College will drop NCEA level 1 in 2023, in an effort to stop over-assessing students. The all-girls secondary school is the first in the capital to opt out of year 11 exams, although ...

Rangi Ruru is one of New Zealand's top achieving NCEA schools, with 100 percent of Year 13 students in 2020 gaining the Level 3 qualification and University Entrance. . Photo: MELISSA WALTER / ...

The government announced sweeping changes to school qualifications on Monday morning, including the end of the NCEA system that has been in place for more than 20 years. The government plans to ...

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 ...

The coalition Government has moved quickly to support teachers with the rollout of the new Level 1 NCEA standards, which the Labour Government rushed to implement, Education Minister Erica Stanford ...

An Education Review Office report says NCEA Level 1 is not motivating all students to achieve “as well as they can”. Photo / Brett Phibbs The Education Review Office has called for the reform of NCEA ...

More than 20,000 students were expected to log into their digital exam for NCEA Level 1 English this morning. Photo / 123RF Secondary school students sitting exams today have faced massive disruptions ...