• Catherine Laws: Avonside Girls’ High School principal on online NCEA exam failures

  • Nov 10 2023
  • Length: 4 mins
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Catherine Laws: Avonside Girls’ High School principal on online NCEA exam failures

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  • Disappointment with NZQA after major disruptions for Year 11 students sitting an online exam.

    More than 20,000 tried to sit the NCEA Level 1 English exam today.

    But the system buckled under the pressure after about 18-thousand pupils had logged on - and access was cut.

    Avonside College Principal, Catherine Laws told Heather du Plessis-Allan a number of students were distressed.

    She says those with special assessment conditions already have barriers to communicating what they want to say, so it was really tough for them.

     

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