Vaughan Couillault: Secondary Principals Association President on the criticisms of Level 1 NCEA - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

St Cuthbert’s College is ditching Level 1 NCEA next year, finding the proposed changes to the curriculum concerning.

President of the Secondary Principals Association Vaughan Couillault disagrees with criticisms that the new curriculum will leave children unprepared.

He says that the point was to lower the stakes of Level 1, and align it more with the amount of work needed in Levels 2 and 3.

Couillault says that the base curriculum being changed does not stop schools from teaching other content, and the removal of standards actually gives more space for that kind of learning to be done.

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