New Zealand is getting an F in its international education rankings, and its NCEA high school qualification has fallen into disrepute. The NCEA, a second-rate ‘made-in-NZ’ substitute for the Cambridge International Examinations, has been called a …credit accumulation exercise. The NCEA system encourages schools and students to choose soft-option unit standards and easier achievement standards…
Continuing in our series of Migrant Tales – first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand taken from around the net. Today’s tale was recently published on an emigration forum. The author is a British immigrant based in Invercargill and started teaching there in April 2013. If you are a teacher thinking about…
Coming to Christchurch to teach, or put your children through school? You may want to think again after official data published today showed there has been a net outflow of families and older workers from the quake stricken city, “There was a net outflow of children and their parents from Christchurch after the earthquake, and…
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