Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson Control freak politicians are now taking over the job parents used to be expected to do. First, Labour decided parents couldn’t be trusted to make sure kids got lunch. Now, it’s decided to take away fizzy drinks and is proposing to replace them
Mt Hobson Academy At the start of 2022 Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online) was launched. It was done in the midst of all of the uncertainty and loss of learning due to covid but the real motivation was to make high-quality academics available across the whole nation and to significantly
If anyone ever believed universities are institutions where academics can speak their minds freely and openly, the stoush sparked by the letter that seven University of Auckland professors sent to the Listener last July should have thoroughly disabused them of that notion. What should have been an uncontroversial statement – that
Mt Hobson Academy At the start of 2022 Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online) was launched. It was done in the midst of all of the uncertainty and loss of learning due to covid but the real motivation was to make high-quality academics available across the whole nation and to significantly
Mt Hobson Academy At the start of 2022 Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online) was launched. It was done in the midst of all of the uncertainty and loss of learning due to covid but the real motivation was to make high-quality academics available across the whole nation and to significantly
Only a right-wing nut-job religious bigot would think that transgenderism — and progressivism in general — has a paedophile problem. As it happens, I agree that not all transgenders are paedophiles and sexual predators. But, boy howdy, the overlap between the kiddy-fiddlers and the cocks-in-frocks brigade is a hell of a crowded
Mt Hobson Academy At the start of 2022 Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online) was launched. It was done in the midst of all of the uncertainty and loss of learning due to covid but the real motivation was to make high-quality academics available across the whole nation and to significantly
As Steven Crowder once pointed out, if “surveys” conducted by campus activists are to be believed, college campuses in the U.S. are even more dangerous for women than the Congo, where mass rape is a strategy. Before you can screech “MeToo!”, Australian media are splashing lurid headlines about “university
The stoush over whether matauranga Maori should be taught in the school NCEA science syllabus — sparked by a letter to the Listener by seven emeritus professors last July who asserted that indigenous knowledge isn’t scientific — has reached a stalemate. The Royal Society Te Aparangi has extricated itself from what
Mt Hobson Academy At the start of 2022 Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online) was launched. It was done in the midst of all of the uncertainty and loss of learning due to covid but the real motivation was to make high-quality academics available across the whole nation and to significantly
New Conservative Helen Houghton BTchLn Co-leader New Conservative Education Spokeswoman New Conservative is very concerned that this government is about to unleash an over complicated thoughtless reaction to what is a simple problem to solve. Additional, ‘new assessment tools for measuring kids’ abilities? Exactly what is the Labour government’s
Kerry McDonald fee.org Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE and host of the weekly LiberatED podcast. She is also the author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019), an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a regular Forbes
Aaron Kheriaty brownstone.org Aaron Kheriaty, former Professor of Psychiatry at the UCI School of Medicine and Director, Medical Ethics at UCI Health, is a Senior Scholar of the Brownstone Institute. It’s been instructive to see which colleagues from the University of California have (or have not) reached out
Mt Hobson Academy At the start of 2022 Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online) was launched. It was done in the midst of all of the uncertainty and loss of learning due to covid but the real motivation was to make high-quality academics available across the whole nation and to significantly
Cat Pause, an academic whose research explored the impacts of “fat stigma”, has died. […] Labour MP Deborah Russell shared news of Pause’s death on Saturday […] “I know very few details except that our darling friend died in her sleep last night. I am so very sad, and I know
Daniel Nuccio brownstone.org Daniel Nuccio holds master’s degrees in both psychology and biology. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in biology at Northern Illinois University studying host-microbe relationships. He is also a regular contributor to The College Fix where he writes about COVID, mental health, and other topics.
