Midday Report Essentials for Monday 4th August 2025
In today's episode, an Auckland school principal is describing the scrapping of NCEA as more window dressing than radical overhaul. Level One will be replaced with foundation literacy and numeracy tests, while Levels 2 and 3 will be replaced with a Certificate of Education and an Advanced Certificate. A 27-year-old woman has been charged with ill-treatment/neglect of a child after a toddler was found inside a suitcase on a bus travelling between Whangarei and Auckland yesterday. The All Blacks squad for the Rugby Championship has been named and there are four potential debutantes in the squad. And Leopard seal song is compared to human nursery rhymes.
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