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Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online+)

Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online+)

Mt Hobson Academy Alwyn Poole Firstly let me say – this is a wonderful project and I am loving the work. I am fully available during the holiday period for families and potential staff. Please don’t hesitate if there is anything that you need to know. Contact alwyn.poole@gmail.

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The Last Leg Universities Stand On Is Collapsing

Isaac Morehouse fee.org Isaac Morehouse is the CEO of Crash and Founder of Praxis. He is a member of the FEE Faculty Network. He blogs at IsaacMorehouse.com. Universities are dying. They have long ceased being the best way to gain knowledge. More recently, the degrees they confer have

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Nationwide Private School Online Option Now Available

Nationwide Private School Online Option Now Available

Mt Hobson Academy The last two years have been incredibly disruptive in both days in school and the quality of teaching and learning in New Zealand. Children/young people deserve high-quality academic options and we offer them. Over the last 19 years, children who have been through our Mt Hobson

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I Love My Job but I Resign

I Love My Job but I Resign

Outspoken psychologist and author Jordan Peterson is a man of principle living in a world where morality is no longer fashionable – if it ever was. Peterson disagrees with the direction academia has taken the social sciences. He recognises that if he does not train his university students, undergraduates and graduates

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Matauranga Maori and the Millions at Stake

Matauranga Maori and the Millions at Stake

Graham Adams There is a lot of funding and influence riding on successfully casting indigenous knowledge as equal to science. Graham Adams says the debate over the NCEA science syllabus is only the tip of an iceberg. Anyone trying to get a grip on the matauranga Maori debate over the

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Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online+)

Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online+)

Mt Hobson Academy Alwyn Poole Firstly let me say – this is a wonderful project and I am loving the work. I am fully available during the holiday period for families and potential staff. Please don’t hesitate if there is anything that you need to know. Contact alwyn.poole@gmail.

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You Can’t Think Critically If You Don’t Know Anything

You Can’t Think Critically If You Don’t Know Anything

Some time ago, I read a “listicle”-type article on “movie villains who were right all along”. My science lecturer at university likewise pointed out that the “villain” from 2012, White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser, was also right at several key points of the plot. Similarly, watching Peter

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Nationwide Private School Online Option Now Available

Nationwide Private School Online Option Now Available

Mt Hobson Academy The last two years have been incredibly disruptive in both days in school and the quality of teaching and learning in New Zealand. Children/young people deserve high-quality academic options and we offer them. Over the last 19 years, children who have been through our Mt Hobson

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How Your Child Can Do Superbly in NCEA or Cambridge

Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants Qualifications are crucial to your child’s future. Schools are important but family support and a great approach by the child are the most important keys. Great preparation for exams and assessments starts on the first day of the school year and is continuous. The

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What Does ‘Academic Freedom’ Mean in Practice?

What Does ‘Academic Freedom’ Mean in Practice?

Jack Heinemann University of Canterbury Two high-profile University of Auckland academics raised important questions about academic freedom with their complaint to the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) that their employer had failed its duty of care to them. Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles and Professor Shaun Hendy have become well known for

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Nationwide Private School Online Option Now Available

Nationwide Private School Online Option Now Available

Mt Hobson Academy The last two years have been incredibly disruptive in both days in school and the quality of teaching and learning in New Zealand. Children/young people deserve high-quality academic options and we offer them. Over the last 19 years, children who have been through our Mt Hobson

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Nationwide Private School Online Option Now Available

Nationwide Private School Online Option Now Available

Mt Hobson Academy The last two years have been incredibly disruptive in both days in school and the quality of teaching and learning in New Zealand. Children/young people deserve high-quality academic options and we offer them. Over the last 19 years, children who have been through our Mt Hobson

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Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online+)

Mt Hobson Academy Connected (Online+)

Mt Hobson Academy Alwyn Poole Firstly let me say – this is a wonderful project and I am loving the work. I am fully available during the holiday period for families and potential staff. Please don’t hesitate if there is anything that you need to know. Contact alwyn.poole@gmail.

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When the Mob Lynches the Lynchers

When the Mob Lynches the Lynchers

Richard Hume Information Opinion Last week I read that Shaun Hendy and Siouxsie Wiles are bringing a legal complaint against Auckland University (their employer) for not adequately protecting them from the mob response to views they have expressed. Case for Sympathy: They Are Victims of Their Conscience. The cornerstone of

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Academic Freedom for Me, Not Thee

Academic Freedom for Me, Not Thee

“Academic freedom” is a funny old thing. Like Churchill’s characterisation of free speech, “Some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage”. Case in point: Siouxsie Wiles and Shaun Hendy. These

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