The Prime Minister is doing his weekly media rounds this morning, ten days out from Budget Day.<\/p>\n
It follows the Government revealing its replacement for NCEA at high school<\/a>, with the new qualifications to require compulsory exams in every subject and a grading schedule from A+ to E.<\/p>\n Luxon will appear in studio on Newstalk ZB\u2019s Mike Hosking Breakfast at 7.37am. You can listen here:<\/p>\n Students must take at least five subjects each year and pass at least three to receive their NZ Certificate of Education in Year 12 and NZ Advanced Certificate of Education in Year 13.<\/p>\n AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n Today Education Minister Erica Stanford will also announce a hefty investment aimed at primary schools<\/a> in the upcoming Budget, with a focus on lifting young students\u2019 maths skills.<\/p>\n Parties\u2019 policy announcements have been ramping up as Budget Day approaches on May 28.<\/p>\n Over the weekend Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith promised a re-elected National would ban judges from considering previous \u201cgood character\u201d when considering discounts in sentencing sex offenders.<\/p>\n Meanwhile NZ First leader Winston Peters announced on Sunday the party would campaign on buying back the BNZ bank<\/a> and making Kiwisaver enrolment compulsory from birth.<\/p>\n He also promised no government with NZ First would touch superannuation or sell New Zealand\u2019s assets.<\/p>\n Last week\u2019s Talbot Mills poll had Peters closing on Luxon as preferred Prime Minister, at 17% compared to Luxon\u2019s 20%. Labour\u2019s Chris Hipkins was still leading on 23%.<\/p>\n National was polling at 29% and Labour on 36%, while NZ First had dropped one point to 14% since last month.<\/p>\n The Green Party was up two points to 9% while Act dropped one point to 7%. Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori remained steady on 2%.<\/p>\n AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.<\/a>Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Prime Minister is doing his weekly media rounds this morning, ten days out from Budget Day. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29816,806,11357,16426,5972,4731,31787,71,196324,78,16427,1073,1456,6722,1304,111,43,139,69,415,75700,23367,1961,6041,102],"class_list":["post-432442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-approaches","tag-as","tag-budget","tag-christopher","tag-day","tag-days","tag-doing","tag-from","tag-hosking","tag-in","tag-luxon","tag-media","tag-mike","tag-minister","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prime","tag-rounds","tag-studio","tag-this","tag-weekly","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}