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150,000 students granted formal QUALs after NCEA fees scrapped

<h2>Almost 150&comma;000 current and former students with unpaid NCEA fees will now formally be awarded their NCEA credits or qualifications&comma; the government has announced&period; <&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>The move follows the Government’s decision in the Wellbeing Budget to remove the &dollar;76&period;70 NCEA and New Zealand Scholarship fees&comma; and write-off any historical NCEA fees owing dating back to 2002&comma; when NCEA first started&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We want to make things a bit easier for families to make ends meet and ensure every student who achieves NCEA can receive their qualification&comma;” Education Minister Chris Hipkins said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Current and former students with unpaid fees will now have their credits or qualifications added to their official NZ Record of Achievement&comma; backdated to the time the credits or qualifications were earned&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It also means that employers will now be able to verify that their employee or potential employee has earned their NCEA qualification&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;These students have worked hard to earn these credits or qualifications&comma; and it’s not right that they don’t get to use it because their families struggle to pay the fees&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;After we made the announcement in May to abolish NCEA fees&comma; I’ve had feedback from a number of parents who are relieved that their child won’t be held back because they were unable to make the payments&comma;” Chris Hipkins said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Who will be impacted&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This change will affect almost 150&comma;000 people &lpar;149&comma;618&rpar;&comma; of whom over 60&comma;500 &lpar;60&comma;595&rpar; will be formally awarded at least one qualification&period; The others will receive credits&comma; but not enough to trigger the awarding of a qualification&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<table class&equals;"table table-bordered table-striped">&NewLine;<caption>Here is the breakdown of the number of students receiving their NCEA qualification&colon;<&sol;caption>&NewLine;<tbody>&NewLine;<tr>&NewLine;<th>Level 1&colon;<&sol;th>&NewLine;<td>24&comma;545<&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<tr>&NewLine;<th>Level 2&colon;<&sol;th>&NewLine;<td>26&comma;832<&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<tr>&NewLine;<th>Level 3&colon;<&sol;th>&NewLine;<td>32&comma;743<&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<&sol;tbody>&NewLine;<&sol;table>&NewLine;<p>&ast;Some students are receiving multiple levels of NCEA&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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