5. No testing sounds good, but will this disadvantage our students when moving into tertiary education overseas?

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5. No testing sounds good, but will this disadvantage our students when moving into tertiary education overseas?

Answer

The prerequisite for tertiary education remains NCEA Level 3; students will still be able to gain this qualification. The real issue here is that NCEA Level 3 isn’t recognised overseas (apart from Australia). NZQA needs to work on this issue. 

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  • Timothy Monck-mason
    commented 2017-06-09 19:09:20 +1200
    Not really helpful. If no testing g is done until final year how will students be prepared and ready for the best they can achieve. How will the test they do be helpful overseas?
    I get wanting to de-emphasise testing at younger age, but removing it sounds like we would be out of kilter with the world, and we are too small for that.
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