An announcement on the future of NCEA is imminent and the whole system could be in for a shakeup.  

A Government briefing from June shows an over-reliance on internal assessments and suggests students are gaming the system to accumulate credits. 

It's also revealed NCEA doesn't support coherent pathways for students into the likes of trades or hospitality. 

Tertiary Union National Secretary Dr Sandra Grey told Mike Hosking there’s no doubt that all systems can be tweaked and made better, but it needs to be done carefully. 

She says that we need to make sure teachers and students are at the heart of the review process. 

When it comes to vocational pathways, Grey says that schools don’t have the capacity to show kids what they're like, so we need a coherent, working system that gives kids a taste of what things like trades are like. 

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