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Emails show a Ministry of Education staff member feared appointments to the English and maths curriculum writing teams were not being made on merit, and might breach the ministry's code of conduct.
The messages, obtained under the Official Information Act by the Association for Teachers of English, showed the staff member warned it was "quite difficult to find justification for some of the writers we're proposing to hire".
"As we are not running our normal writer recruitment process I don't know if we are contracting these people on merit," they said in an email.
The ministry said the appointments were consistent with its process for selecting people for curriculum writing teams.
"Please note, within these
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