Greens Warn NCEA Changes Will Fail Students
The Greens say National’s planned NCEA overhaul could push thousands of students out of education success and back towards outdated standardised assessment.

The Greens say National’s planned NCEA overhaul could push thousands of students out of education success and back towards outdated standardised assessment.

National claims the NCEA replacement will lift standards, but critics see something far darker… An education system rebuilt around competition, conformity and private interests.

The Waitangi Tribunal has delivered a brutal warning over the Government’s education reforms, and the Greens say Luxon can no longer hide the ideological agenda underneath them.

Labour says the Coalition Government’s approach to te Tiriti and education reform is driving Māori-Crown relations into dangerous territory. With tamariki Māori paying the price.

The PSA says Budget 2026 risks driving exhausted public servants out the door while essential services across New Zealand are already stretched to breaking point.

Young people can’t find work, can’t afford study and are leaving the country in record numbers, yet the Government is still cutting education support.

Young New Zealanders are leaving, unemployment is climbing, and the Government’s answer is to make tertiary education harder to afford.

Cold flats. Empty fridges. Rising power bills. Student leaders say tertiary students are being abandoned during the worst cost-of-living crisis in years.

$230 for a school ball? Parents are pushing back, and asking when school events became luxury experiences.

After a year of Erica Stanford’s wrecking-ball education reforms, Labour has finally put something on the table, and it’s bigger than just undoing the damage.