New laws will give ministers control of previously independent regulatory bodies in education and health, potentially undermining their public advocacy roles.
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Taking away the duty of boards to give effect’ to te Tiriti o Waitangi undermines the expectation that schools should work for Maori as well as for anyone else.
The third maths and stats curriculum for primary and intermediate schools in less than three years is being introduced on an unrealistic timeline.
Data from a ‘phonics check’ of new entrants is too incomplete to draw firm conclusions from, and word recognition is not the same as reading.
The end of NCEA marks a return to a more standardised, exam-focused way of learning. But for some students, successfully finishing high school just got harder.
An ‘apprenticeship’ system would undermine teaching’s role as a profession, and separate trainees from the evolving research and knowledge that university-based training provides.
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