NZ is Barely Functioning, Literally.
16 June 2018
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16 June 2018
"I remember people being spooked about new health and safety legislation and I would go along to a workshop and the first person to pick up the mike would say, 'well, of course the real issue is literacy and numeracy', and everyone would nod."
"NCEA has drifted away from the core concepts that you still must be literate and numerate," he says. "They are getting unit standards for soft skills, not hard skills, so 'I'm finding it too difficult to do mathematics so I'll do environmental studies or I'll do something else', and they get the cross-credits so they have a capacity to learn, but they don't really have the core literacy and numeracy skills that you must have to work in an operational environment."
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