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Speaker 1: Several bits out of the NCEEA changes. Firstly, the New

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Speaker 1: Zealand Certificate of Education actually sounds like something, doesn't it.

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Speaker 1: I mean the same way an A tells you something.

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Speaker 1: The New Zealand Certificate or Advanced Certificate of Education is

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Speaker 1: a thing you can get your head around, as in,

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Speaker 1: do you have one or do you not? I mean

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Speaker 1: NCEA is an acronym. Under the changes, you need to

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Speaker 1: pass things, how wonderfully old fashioned. If you don't pass,

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Speaker 1: you don't advance. Therefore, when you do pass, it actually counts.

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Speaker 1: It means something. Having watched NCEA in action with our

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Speaker 1: five kids, it has been shocking. Virtually anyone could get it,

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Speaker 1: and that was and is never a good thing. Under

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Speaker 1: the new regime, you take five subjects you need to

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Speaker 1: pass for nothing too complicated about that. I would have

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Speaker 1: thought the compulsion around maths and language. I'm actually a

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Speaker 1: bit sad about. Choice is good. Freedom is good if

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Speaker 1: you know what you're doing, if you're aiming somewhere specific,

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Speaker 1: A tailored approach is vastly more appealing. But in a

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Speaker 1: mass system you are vulnerable to the chances and the

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Speaker 1: weakest links. And they were always going to take the

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Speaker 1: joke subjects, the easy he gets and as such wreck

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Speaker 1: any reputation you might have hoped for run your qualification.

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Speaker 1: The vocational aspect is years overdue gateway inversions like it's

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Speaker 1: sort of touched on the trades and specific careers or jobs.

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Speaker 1: But this fascination of not obsession we seem to have

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Speaker 1: had with the university has been ruined us for too many.

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Speaker 1: Being a trade is actually to be admired, it's not

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Speaker 1: a second prize. The snobbishness around a university degree has

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Speaker 1: got so absurd You've ended up with any number of

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Speaker 1: bewildered teenagers chasing arts degrees and b comms for no

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Speaker 1: discernible reason other than that's what they thought they should do.

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Speaker 1: I'm dreadfully sad though, for the thousands of kids who

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Speaker 1: have been messed around with with NCEEA. What's its value?

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Speaker 1: I mean, what weight does a generation of kids place

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Speaker 1: on a thing that's been binned? For some they got

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Speaker 1: locked down in COVID as well, given a crap qualification.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming, but onwards and upwards. It's a little

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Speaker 1: bit back to the future. But along with the mad

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Speaker 1: open classrooms, isn't it fascinating how forward the old days

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