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.

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 / ...

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 ...

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 ...

Less than half of students attained University Entrance (UE) last year, with a third also failing to reach NCEA level 1, according to data from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA). 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 ...

All but one Whanganui secondary school will offer NCEA Level 1 despite nationwide changes. Whanganui Collegiate School switched to IGCSE Cambridge, citing increased student engagement and teacher ...

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 ...

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 New Zealand Herald article related to St Cuthbert’s College’s concerns about the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) Level 1 reveals the need for clearer understanding about the ...

About 14 percent of teens who met the literacy and numeracy requirements last year used alternative standards.