Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.
familyfirst.org.nz There’s increased violence in our schools. Students stood down or suspended for physically assaulting staff or students is on the rise. Some schools even have “fight clubs”. What’s the cause, and what are the solutions? Is family breakdown the underlying cause? What about the influence
Harry Palmer Near the end of my secondary schooling in the late 1950s, my English teacher was Mr Dooley. He was apparently required to also teach what’s now called ‘civics’ – how politics worked, how to take out a mortgage to buy a house, etc – and he gave us a
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Following the sell-out enrolment achieved for the initial one-year Diploma Course, SPEAKING SPARROW, starting next year, Waikato university Vice-Chancellor Neil Quigley has now announced another brilliantly innovative new six-month diploma, also to commence next year. This is a world first and expected to attract a heavy
David Rennie It seems as if yet another social contagion is sweeping the Western world. The way this normally happens is someone in the US starts something that is considered wonderfully woke and administrators, corporations, politicians and educators all jump on the bandwagon in order to let everyone know that
Gavin O’Reilly ronpaulinstitute.org On Thursday it was announced that the southern Irish state would roll out flu jabs to all schoolchildren under its jurisdiction, despite the fact that children are an age group at absolute minute risk of becoming seriously ill from seasonal illnesses such as flu and
Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11-13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1-13. alwynpoole.substack.com [On
Yesterday the Green Party released its main policies, including income, housing and climate change. Its income and tax plans include: * $385 a week guaranteed for students and anyone looking for work, with an extra $135 each week if you are caring for kids at home on your own. * Top-ups for
Yesterday, Labour released its “Rainbow manifesto”. Labour would work to improve Rainbow health and ensure the health care system meets the needs of trans, intersex, and gender-diverse people. Specific promises include: […] Schools would be encouraged to adopt the Ministry of Education’s sexuality education guidelines while teachers would be given
Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. alwynpoole.substack.
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The degradation of university degrees over my life-time, is tragic. Readers familiar with my novel of 20 years back, “Degrees For Everyone” will understand. Consider this. A regular contributor in the NZ Herald is a Canterbury University sociologist, (a bogus subject lacking any intellectual element) namely
Britain nearly got lucky, last year. Nearly. Back in July 2022, when Britain’s ruling Conservatives were casting about for a replacement for the unlamented Boris Johnson, one name that stood out from the pack of CINOs and globalist toadies was Kemi Badenoch. As I wrote back then: If Badenoch
Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11-13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1-13. alwynpoole.substack.com St
Is there still hope left for the West’s universities? Probably not, to be honest. Some are giving it the ol’ college try (pun intended) of course: New College of Florida, a public liberal arts college in Sarasota, has just abolished its Gender Studies department. Provoking the predictable howling fury
As I’ve asked several times, now, Is it Time to Bulldoze the Universities? Of course, I was half-joking when I first put the question. Only half. But less and less so, as the years have rolled on. Perhaps, though, there are less drastic alternatives. Just bulldoze a couple of
