Erica Stanford

Social science, the reason that social science is the one that you would prioritise, and this is part of the feedback from the profession as well, is that it's massively knowledge-rich.

So you've got lots of strands in there, world history, New Zealand history, geography, civics and society, financial literacy.

And knowledge is so important for young people in their critical thinking and, importantly, their comprehension of what they're reading.

So a really knowledge-rich topic was important to prioritise.

But I've been dealing very closely with the local principals' associations and ran this through them to make sure that this sort of re-phasing was right and we've got the subjects in the right order.

The social science and science will be gazetted for use from next year.

So they'll be required.

Those other ones in 2029, yep, they will be after this election, of course.

I still plan to be the Minister of Education, Mike, because it's really important to me that we get these reforms through.

Parents are already saying to me, they stopped me in the street and they're like, we are noticing a difference.

They're seeing what I'm seeing in the early results.

and that achievement is improving.

We are turning results around, and we can't afford to change tack and go back to, you know, let's guess the word by looking at the picture.

We're up to 27,000.

It's an increased slide.

No, no, no, no.

But it's still lower than the March rolling average over the last 20 years or whatever.

Neither am I, as you know.

I thought the Prime Minister laid out a really good, clear position, which is actually...

Migrants are incredibly important to our economy and our social fabric.