Education in mind and morals: The recalibration of NCEA

Education in mind and morals: The recalibration of NCEA
Professor Welby Ings says education should be a means to grow all New Zealanders. (Image: Alyse Wright)
Maria Slade
Professor Welby Ings is worried that the Government’s NCEA reforms will see the country return to a system of ranking students and automatically failing a chunk of them.The renowned educationalist, filmmaker, and author of the new book Invisible Intelligence, says that, as unwieldy as the existing secondary school qualification system may have become, its beauty is that it provides flexibility to recognise different types of achievement.We live in a world of "us", where the skills we need are how to get the best out of our diffe...

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