There is something very distasteful about the Associate Minister of Education Hon Heather Roy commending private schools for offering Cambridge exams.  She is after all a New Zealand minister with a salary, generous perks and a gold-plated superannuation scheme funded by the New Zealand taxpayer.  Is it too much to ask that she not undermine our national qualifications by constantly promoting a qualification designed for developing countries that don't have the infrastructure to run their own assessment systems? (Which is why, by the way, the news media are being suckered when they quote NZ Cambridge students as having results that put them  "first in the world" - first amongst a number of developing countries would be more accurate).

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