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Speaker 1: If we could mark NCA or even NCA level one,

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Speaker 1: would we even give it an achieved, let alone a

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Speaker 1: merit or an excellence. We heard at the weekend about

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Speaker 1: an arrow report that's been done for the government basically

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Speaker 1: says the whole system's far too flexible. Kids are scooping

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Speaker 1: up credits from left, right and center, all corners of

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Speaker 1: the classroom. Too broad, too flexible. As a result, they're

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Speaker 1: not being properly taught core subjects and basic stuff things

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Speaker 1: you would expect that young people are taught at high school.

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Speaker 1: Government's looking at it, you know, always looking at it.

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Speaker 1: But there was a number in this report which I

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Speaker 1: think should jump out for all parents and teachers. Twenty

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Speaker 1: two percent. Last year, twenty two percent of NCA results

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Speaker 1: came from external assessment, which is code language for exams,

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Speaker 1: you know, actually going and sitting down under the watchful

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Speaker 1: eye of a teacher or an assessor. The bulk of

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Speaker 1: the credits that students got came from internal assessment stuff

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Speaker 1: like essays. This means you can basically get away with

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Speaker 1: using AI and all sorts of other stuff to do

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Speaker 1: the work for you. One in four this is bad.

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Speaker 1: One in four kids didn't bother sitting the exams for

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Speaker 1: subjects because they already had enough internal credits. Now I

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Speaker 1: went through the NCAA system and this happened to me too,

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Speaker 1: that I would never dream of skipping, and I would

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Speaker 1: have been cobbed around the back of the head by

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Speaker 1: mum skipping an exam just because I had enough credits

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Speaker 1: to go on. Clearly, something has to be done about this.

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Speaker 1: What hope do we give students if they're not being

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Speaker 1: taught the basics or they're not being assessed properly. And

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Speaker 1: until something is done about that, you'll keep getting bad headlines.

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Speaker 1: You'll keep getting bad aero reports about a system that

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Speaker 1: gets undermined. The qualification gets undermined every time one of

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Speaker 1: these headline rolls out, and kids rely on these qualifications

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Speaker 1: to get them through their working lives. That doesn't seem

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