The shambles that is the NCEA can be no better seen
than in the advertising campaign offering employers
brochures on how to decipher school leavers' results, United
Future's Bernie Ogilvy said today.
"Frankly, it's just a
bad joke," Mr Ogilvy, the party's education spokesman,
said.
"Any system that needs that degree of explanation is
clearly a bureaucratic farce, but when that is the system
students, parents and employers alike are supposed to have
confidence in, we have a disastrous situation," he
said.
"For the NZQA to state in the ads that 'these
records will provide more information about what a job
applicant has learnt and can do' is frankly
ridiculous.
"The NCEA results are about as user-friendly
as the Dead Sea Scrolls."
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