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Sending teenagers to polytech for the day will be a central part of the government's secondary school overhaul.
Education Minister Erica Stanford told the Vocational Education and Training Research Forum in Wellington the Trades Academy system was her "north Star" as the government developed industry-driven "vocational subjects" for secondary schools.
Trades academies are tertiary providers, often polytechnics, that take secondary school students for the day.
Stanford said she was evaluating the various vocational or trade training programmes offered by schools, but trades academies would certainly continue under the new system.
"There's a range of different pathways.
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