The workplace is changing and therefore the education system needs to as well.

That is the Government's reasoning for major education reforms, that will change the way students are taught from early childhood through to post-secondary school.

A three-year work programme has been announced, looking at everything from the Tomorrow Schools programme introduced in 1989, to NCEA, vocational education and the research aspirations of the tertiary sector.

Labour Party MP, Kris Faafoi told Mike Hosking it will also look at school property.

"If you look around most areas of the country, some of the schools that we inherited were in pretty bad shape because of a rather large underinvestment by the previous government."

LISTEN ABOVE AS KRIS FAAFOI AND STEVEN JOYCE SPEAK WITH MIKE HOSKING