Life after National Standards: business as usual, or opportunity for change?
Rachel Helyer Donaldson talks to schools about finding the new normal now that National Standards are a thing of the past.
Digital technology becoming compulsory in school curriculum
Digital technologies learning is to be added to the school curriculum
All kids learn differently
Jennifer Thomas discusses the benefits of alternative learning methods
Transforming the curriculum for the technological age
Instead of focusing on the ‘piece of paper’ at the end, our education system should be geared to produce the skills needed by industry. By Meriana Johnsen.
The primary years – NZC, Cambridge or IB?
While the vast majority of New Zealand primary schools follow The New Zealand Curriculum, a small number favour the International Baccalaureate’s Primary Years Programme or the Cambridge International Primary Programme. Here, proponents of each system discuss the relative merits and weaknesses.
We need to talk about…life-long learning
Roger Smyth discusses how micro-credentials will help resolve the emerging need for training but raises questions about how the government is going to effectively fund life-long learning.
Do Cambridge exams plug an NCEA-shaped hole?
As NCEA comes under scrutiny, Education Review questions whether Cambridge exams do a better job than our national school qualification at preparing our students for university study.
Editorial: NCEA, assessment and attitudes must change
Senior school students received their NCEA results this week and few will have been surprised. Their teachers will have ensured that most of them got their required credits from internal assessments before they sat the national exams.
Tomorrow’s Schools Review: All you need to know about the proposed education shake-up
The Tomorrow's Schools Taskforce report includes recommendations for major change.
Doing it once, doing it right: Reducing NCEA overassessment
Secondary school students in New Zealand undergo multiple assessments to obtain an NCEA qualification. Soumya Bhamidipati talks to Principal Maurie Abraham about what it would mean to have a singular assessment at the end of a student’s educational journey instead.
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