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 ...

Education Minister Erica Stanford says a sizeable drop in the percentage of NCEA Level 1 students receiving the qualification was anticipated. The latest results released on Friday show 70% of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mock exams in NCEA Level 1 are due to be held very soon, and they are only nominally mock — if students fall crook through Covid or whatever else later in the year during actual exams, the results of ...

The Education Review Office (ERO) believes it might be time for NCEA level 1 to be scrapped, after the revised version was only introduced earlier this year. A new report from the ERO released on ...

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 ...

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 ...