Ministry for Education (New Zealand)

Overview

The Minister of Education wanted to hear from a wide range of New Zealanders about the future of the education system – for early learning, schooling and tertiary, and lifelong learning. So the New Zealand Ministry of Education used Citizen Space to run a national 'Education Conversation' online.

Huge numbers of people took the opportunity to get involved and have their say – including more than 16,000 people engaging directly in the NCEA Review (with more than a quarter of responses coming from young people).

Following the consultation, the Ministry of Education have declared their intention to 'work with our Ministerial and Professional Advisory Groups to bring together what we’ve heard, to further test ideas for change, and to look at what a high-performing assessment system should look like in a New Zealand context.'