Secondary Schooling

NCEA

It is UnitedFuture policy to:

• Introduce a minimum number of standards for each subject that must be externally assessed.
• Look at initiatives to address the problem of boys continuing to fall behind girls in achievement and completion rates for NCEA
• Establish consistent policies on internal and external reassessment opportunities.
• Ensure that the time allotted to complete externally assessed exams is appropriate to the number of standards that students are sitting.
• UnitedFuture supports the raising of the school leaving age provided:

1.  It is accompanied by a range of options for students to use their years 12 and 13 for more career focused learning options like trade training
2. Students capable of moving on to tertiary opportunities during those years are not prevented from doing so.

• Ensure that senior students have sufficient access to advice and information about career choices and opportunities for further education and training.