CREATIVE ECONOMIES REPLY ON DEVELOPING TALENT

Noting NCEA is a very powerful cognitive and skill development education framework, undermined by dangerous ideological incentivies to reinforce churn based education,

designed to drive talent, creativity and ideas; in line with further simplification of the academic and cognitive requirement, the last two years, with increased spend, suggest a further deteriorating supply, from secondary, into free education schemes in tertiary - which has:

• Entrenched the Industrial revolution education model

• Returned just 0.74% of the $ 15.1bn reflecting the 'engaged state' of learners.

• Driven $ 14.9bn of costs

• Increased youth unemployment

• Deepened NZ's knowledge creation and Innovation challenges.

Another $ 15bn+ likely to be outlined in the 2020 budget.

In needing abrupt change, creative and digital exploits, NZ's future will be defined by targeting this spend into resetting NCEA back to it's purpose. This investment ought to be linked to abrupt change by incentivising schools to abandon tradition; supporting them to reconfigure them as talent supply engines to support NZ's "team of 5-million" into Idea economy with digital exploits.

Combining NCEA (as it was designed to do) with Industry-Certification and real-talent development or experiential industry-learning is an easy win that provides significant savings with no new money required.