One of our members wrote
“Yesterday I heard of another person who had been (incorrectly) told by the NZ Correspondence School that they had to give up their HE cert.
The MoE says that we don’t have to, as we are still supervising the kid’s studies, but sometimes NZCS staff can’t get past the thought that a kid can’t be at school and enrolled as an adult with them “so therefore” the kid must leave the (home)school to be able to enroll. – Wrong. Our kids “left school” at 6 yo (or whatever), and our home is not a school. (For the question “When did you leave school?” – My kids usu put something like, “I have never been to school.”)
Please pass this info around to as many people (or email lists) as possible, so that no other HEers unnecessarily lose their exemptions. ”
I quote from the NCHENZ informational web-pages
“Homeschooled students keep their exemptions as they are not enrolled in the school, they are purchasing curriculum, and their parents are still eligible for the homeschool supervisory allowance.
We recommend you keep your exemption active as long as possible, since new exemptions are not granted to students over 15 yrs, and once it lapses it will not be reactivated.” see NCHENZ web-page here
see this page also ( although it is from WINZ regarding work requirements it spells out the policy
“2. Partners who home school under the Ministry of Education can purchase courses provided by the Correspondence School as part of their child’s education programme.”
