Bar lifted for university entrance

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Wed, 10 Aug 2011 3:57p.m.

The UE changes will effect students enrolling in 2015 (file pic)

The UE changes will effect students enrolling in 2015 (file pic)

By 3news.co.nz staff

The bar has been lifted for school graduates to get into university.

The New Zealand Qualifications Authority announced today changes to the University Entrance requirements, with more NCEA credits required by students.

The UE changes will come into effect in 2014 and effect students enrolling in 2015, among the changes are:

- Students will need 60 credits at level 3 or higher and 20 credits at level 2 or higher

- 10 credits at level 1 or higher to prove their numeracy

- 10 credits at level 2 or higher to prove literacy  

“The new requirement, while not a radical change, does raise the bar for university entrance,” says NZQA's Deputy Chief Executive, Bali Haque.

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12 Aug 2011 10:33a.m.

Erm... wrote:

About time too. Idiotic schemes to hide unemployment by moving incapable students into universities have devalued NZ university qualifications.
Fancy allowing students who didn't complete school into university!

10 Aug 2011 08:09p.m.

Morgan wrote:

Not counting the literacy/numeracy requirements, that's the requirements from level three, exactly. So why not drop UE as a qualification and streamline the requirements into the requirements from level three? NCEA is needlessly overcomplicated, and I am one of the people who understand it working with it every day! Better than that though - still too easy to achieve UE - why not make it fourteen credits at level three in one of English, History, Art History, Media Studies, Classics (and similar), in addition to fourteen at level two in mathematics?

10 Aug 2011 04:32p.m.

Judy wrote:

Great news. A pity it is not coming into being next year. It is pointless for people of lesser ability or, perhaps, motivation to be enrolled in a university. There are other places to learn all sorts of subjects and skills and universities should be used for that for which they are intended.Keeping the unemployment figures appearing to be lower than reality suggests seems to be one of the reasons for this easy access to our places of higher learning.If we did not have the Labour vote buyers' " interest free loans" I am sure there would be less unmotivated and unlikely students to be engaging in this rip off system.It definetly beats the hard physical work option for some.