A recent history of school qualifications

The New Zealand Initiative by The New Zealand Initiative

Jul 20, 202600:26:43News & Politics

In this episode, Michael talks with Doug Blackmur, former chief executive of NZQA, about the qualification model developed in the late 1990s and how it became NCEA. Their conversation ranges across the changes the model...

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