Educators ‘blindsided’ by demotion of ag in schools

Educators ‘blindsided’ by demotion of ag in schools

Reading Time: 2 minutes A senior educator has warned that the government’s decision to remove agriculture as a subject in the high school curriculum will jeopardise its goal of wanting to double the value of exports by 2034. “If we are going to take it out of school, we might as well kiss that goodbye,” Napier Boys High School head of agriculture Rex Newman said. He believes it shows that the Education Ministry has not fully thought through the …