Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 13, 2019 17:09:08 GMT 12
REMOVAL OF FEES AND A STRONGER NCEA
Families of secondary students will no longer have to pay fees for NCEA and NZ Scholarship, in one of a raft of changes announced today to strengthen the qualification and pave the way for more young people to succeed.
“Improving support for students to undertake NCEA through Māori-medium education is long overdue.
“The default choice that many whanau face is to revert to English-medium schooling at secondary level. The Government has already announced more investment to recruit and train teachers fluent in Te reo Māori. And we’ll ensure a greater range of teaching materials is developed so that mātauranga Māori and te ao Māori have parity within the NCEA qualification, and within our schools and kura,” Chris Hipkins said.....
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1905/S00125/removal-of-fees-and-a-stronger-ncea.htm
Families of secondary students will no longer have to pay fees for NCEA and NZ Scholarship, in one of a raft of changes announced today to strengthen the qualification and pave the way for more young people to succeed.
“Improving support for students to undertake NCEA through Māori-medium education is long overdue.
“The default choice that many whanau face is to revert to English-medium schooling at secondary level. The Government has already announced more investment to recruit and train teachers fluent in Te reo Māori. And we’ll ensure a greater range of teaching materials is developed so that mātauranga Māori and te ao Māori have parity within the NCEA qualification, and within our schools and kura,” Chris Hipkins said.....
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1905/S00125/removal-of-fees-and-a-stronger-ncea.htm
