Curriculum Stocktake Report Recommendations and Rationale
This is an extract from the Ministry of Education's report to the Minister and Associate Minister of Education. See the full document for details.
Senior Secondary School Curriculum
Recommendation (8): that further policy on the senior secondary school curriculum is undertaken
Further work on the issues that the curriculum poses for secondary schools needs to be undertaken.
The present curriculum frameworks do not provide sufficient guidance on how the curriculum relates to post secondary pathways, and these need to be investigated.
Further work on the links between the senior secondary school and work and tertiary study need to be undertaken once the NCEA has been fully implemented.
A section on the transition to the senior school, qualifications and work should be included in subsequent revisions of The New Zealand Curriculum Framework and Te Anga Marautanga o Aotearoa after the full implementation of NCEA.