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Welcome to the Secondary Education portal
Information, resources and guidance, to support secondary teaching and learning.
Secondary essentials
A series of Curriculum Guides to help design quality teaching and learning programmes.
New and updated NCEA support material and internal assessment resources.
Broad information covering NCEA standards and resources.
Four projects that support Maori students' success in English-medium schools.
Setting goals, priorities, actions, targets and outcomes to ensure Māori youth are present, engaged and achieving at secondary level.
A professional development initiative funded by the Ministry of Education.
A strategy to help students solve numeric problems and develop a deeper understanding of mathematics.
Key resources
- NZ Curriculum Online
- Te Marautanga o Aotearoa
- Ka Hikitia
- Communities
- Educational Leaders
- Tū Rangatira
- Secondary middle leaders
- Pasifika
- Digistore
- Secondary Education Gazette stories
- Ministry of Education resource catalogue
To order Ministry of Education publications, please phone 0800660662
Transitions and pathways
Career Education and Guidance in New Zealand Schools
Advice and support on providing effective career education and guidance in years 7 to 13.
Secondary students and school leavers
Career information to help students at school, or for those making decisions about leaving.
Career Services rapaura - Career education in practice
A practical handbook to help schools manage and develop their career education programmes.
A Study of Students' Transition from Primary to Secondary Schooling
Learning workers: Young New Zealanders and early career development
Media gallery
Safe and supportive environments, with coherent, clear and consistently enforced codes of behaviour and restorative discipline practices, contribute to learning gains for Pasifika students.
Spotlight
NCEA on TKI
The new NCEA site on TKI is now live! Here you will find resources to support internally assessed level 1 and level 2 achievement standards, as well as draft level 3 standards and resources for internal and external assessment. Registered standards and subject resources can be found on the NZQA website.

