Melissa Chan-Green
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Hi and welcome to School Shorts with me, Melissa Chan-Green, journalist and mum of two with a passion for education.
In this episode, we are speaking with Andy Jackson.
He is the Head of Policy and Analysis with the Ministry of Education in New Zealand.
He's going to respond to some questions and some concerns that were raised in the previous episode with Jo Knox, who had carried out a survey of teachers across New Zealand and particularly looking into the way New Zealand students are enrolled at new entrant levels.
So this can mean that a student either goes into year zero
or year one.
It sometimes means that students will have maybe three terms at school before they begin year two, and other students, purely because of when they were born, might have an extra two or three terms more
than those students.
So when they start year two, they're not only older, but they've had more time at school.
Currently, there is a bit of flexibility in the way that schools can manage this, but many teachers in that survey had raised concerns about inequity
and particularly with changes to curriculum, as to how each student can have the same amount of exposure in the classroom to meet the same amount of set criteria under the new curriculum.
So here is Andy Jackson to answer some of those queries and concerns.
Well, Andy, thank you so much for your time and for being with us.
Can I just get you to explain what does your role entail?
OK, so let's look at what the current policy is and why that has been set.
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