New Zealand has confirmed details of a major overhaul of its secondary school qualifications, replacing the long-standing National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) with a new system aimed ...

Senior high school students will now face a compulsory exam in every subject, be marked from A+ to E and need to pass at least three subjects each year to ...

Education Minister Erica Stanford confirmed the NCEA replacement would bring a new grading scale, compulsory subjects, and ...

In March, we confirmed that NCEA would be replaced by a new subject-based qualification over two years. The new qualification will be the New Zealand Certificate of Education (NZCE) at Year 12 and the ...

The Government has taken the first major step in rebuilding New Zealand’s senior secondary qualifications system, with Cabinet agreeing to the structure of a new qualification system to replace NCEA ...

Reactions to the government's NCEA reset vary from welcoming the abolition of a confusing system, to fear that poorer communities will be left behind. It is billed as the most significant overhaul of ...

A proposed new system would include a move back to A-to-E grades, because there's "too much credit counting" going on now, the minister says.