The Education Minister says a lot of schools were already trying to teach some of the new curriculum subjects.
A new list of study topics has been unveiled as part of a refresh of the national curriculum from 2028.
It places greater emphasis on the STEM subjects and adds Civics, Politics and Philosophy, and Media and Journalism.
Erica Stanford told Mike Hosking a lot of schools were trying their best to teach some of these subjects in the NCEA system.
She says they were trying to cobble together credits from different subjects, to make topics like Civics, Philosophy, and Politics work.
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