More than 1000 student teachers can graduate with less classroom experience than usual after the Teaching Council lowered its minimum standards.
The pandemic has hampered students' ability to go into schools and early childhood centres so the council has cut by a quarter the number of weeks of practical experience required for provisional teacher registration.
Student teachers are worried they are being thrown in the deep end though the Education Ministry is organising additional support for them next year.
Here's RNZ education correspondent, John Gerritsen.
