Education Minister Chris Hipkins will set up an advisory group of teachers and principals to consult on the NCEA review, and has extended the consultation period after complaints from a coalition of 70 schools which said the process was being rushed.
Hipkins has written to members of the Principals NCEA Coalition today after an urgent meeting last week, confirming that he would speak to his Cabinet colleagues about proposed changes to the proposed review process.
He would establish a professional advisory group made up of principals and teachers, in addition to a ministerial advisory group already set up, to advise him on the outcomes from the review process next year.
In addition, the consultation period would be extended from September 16 until October 19 this year.
"We are grateful to the minister for meeting with us and welcome these initial changes as a good start," said coalition spokesman Glen Denham, principal of West Auckland's Massey High School.