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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: There's more to life than qualifications
Description: We are obsessed with qualifications. If you want evidence, take all the noise we’re hearing today about the news that the number of students leaving school with NCEA Level 2 or above dropped again last year to the lowest level in a decade. People are jumping up and down because the OECD reckons that if someone’s going to be employable, they need at least Level 2 NCEA. Which fuels even further this obsession with getting good qualifications. Which, I’ll admit, I’ve been guilty of too. Especially when the kids were going through...