Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: The threshold for Auckland students to be awarded a certificate endorsement will also be adjusted to 44 credits at merit or excellence level, rather than the 46 that it is for students who were able to return to the classroom sooner around the rest of the country. To be awarded university entrance, Auckland students will need to achieve 12 rather than 14 credits in each of three university entrance approved subjects. They'll still need to attain NCEA level 3 and meet the literacy and numeracy requirements for university entrance. Put together with the Learning Recognition credits, these changes amount to a full reactivation of the support that was provided to Auckland students last year following their second lockdown then.