This article considers the current role of NZQA as one of the major centralising forces in the New Zealand education system. Using Habermas ' critique of modernity, it argues that NZQA is the product of a technocratic rationality which has become the modus operandi of reforms to administration in the New Zealand State and economy.

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NZQA and the economic rationalisation of education
Vol 16, Number 2, p.59