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Kia ora

Thank you for your request for information below. The Ministry will consider and respond to your request in accordance with the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act).

Under section 15(1) of the Act, we are required to make and inform you of our decision on your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case not later than 20 working days after the day on which your request is received. You can therefore expect to receive our decision on your request on or before the 13 of April 2026. If more than 20 working days are needed due to the potential workload and/or consultations involved in answering your request, we will notify you accordingly.

The Ministry may publicly release on our website the response to your request five days after you have received it. Any personal information will be removed.

In the interim, if you have any questions about your request, please email [email address].

Ngā mihi

Enquiries National Team | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga | Ministry of Education | IB National Office, 1 The Terrace, Wellington

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Tēnā koe Mrs Campbell

 

OIA: GEMS-47214 Risks associated with the timeframe for rolling out the
new curriculum and impacts on students

 

Thank you for your email of 11 March 2026 to the Ministry of Education
(the Ministry) requesting the following information:

 

 1. All risk registers, risk assessments, or risk heat maps relating to
the delivery of the curriculum changes (including English, Maths,
Science, and the Common Practice Model), created or updated between 1
January 2023 and today.

 

 2. Any project or programme delivery timelines, milestone schedules, or
implementation plans for the curriculum changes that identify risks,
dependencies, or constraints.

 

 3. Briefings, aide memoires, or reports to the Minister of Education that
include:

o identification of risks to delivering the curriculum changes within
the announced timeframes
o mitigation strategies
o assessments of readiness across the sector (e.g., PLD capacity,
resource development, workforce capability)

 

For this item, I am not requesting free and frank opinions or policy
options. To avoid unnecessary withholding, I am specifically requesting
only the factual information, risk descriptions, risk ratings, timelines,
and implementation assessments contained within those documents.

 

 4. Any internal or external evaluations or reviews that assess the
feasibility of delivering the curriculum changes within the announced
timeframes.

 

 5. Any correspondence with external stakeholders (e.g., NZQA, school
sector groups, subject associations) where risks to delivery
timeframes were raised or discussed.

 

If parts of documents must be withheld, please provide the remainder. If
the information is held in summary form, I am happy to receive summaries.

 

I would also appreciate it if the Ministry could clarify whether any risks
have been escalated to the Ministry’s Executive Leadership Team or the
Minister during this period.

 

Your request has been considered under the Official Information Act 1982
(the Act).

 

Your request as it stands is extremely broad, covering a wide range of
communications over an extended period. Attempting to provide a
substantive response to your request would require extensive searches
across multiple systems and individual mailboxes, and detailed review of a
large volume of material to identify and extract relevant content.

 

I am therefore refusing your request under section 18(f) of the Act,
as the information cannot be made available without substantial
collation and research. As required under sections 18A and 18B of the Act,
I have considered whether inviting you to refine further, fixing a charge
or extending would enable your request to be answered. However, I do not
consider that any of these mechanisms would sufficiently mitigate the
administrative burden associated with collating and assessing the
information requested, which would have a significant impact on the
Ministry’s ability to carry out its core functions. 

 

If, having considered the above, you wish to submit a more targeted
request, such as focusing on a specific type of document, a
narrower timeframe, or a particular individual or group, we would be happy
to consider this. 

Thank you again for your email. You have the right to ask an Ombudsman to
review my decision on your request, in accordance with section 28 of the
Act. You can do this by writing to [1][email address] or to
Office of the Ombudsman, PO Box 10152, Wellington 6143.

 

Nāku noa, nā,

Official and Parliamentary Information | Ministry of Education | CM

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ōna huanga
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outcomes
[3]Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga

 

 

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