Alwyn Poole: This is HUGE re the outcomes of our Education system.

Myself, and others, e.g. Duncan Garner, Derek Cheng, etc – have recently highlighted that 15% of students leave of education system – after at least 13,200 funded hours – with no formal qualification.

For 2025 LEAVERS that would be 10,496 young people.

Despite what people to the esteemed level of the current Minister of Education stating – NCEA is easy to understand and clearly defined.

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Too busy fielding ‘devastated’ calls to lodge ‘white supremacy’ complaint, says Māori principals’ leader

Bruce Jepsen, president of Te Akatea, the Māori Principals’ Association, has unleashed a torrent of accusations against the Education Ministry for deciding not to reprint At the Marae, a junior reading book.

The Ministry’s stated reason is that the book contains several Māori words that do not fit well with the sequence children use when learning to read by sounding out words.