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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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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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Hands off Our Kids!

New Conservative Co-Leaders New Conservative Helen Houghton, (Christchurch) Ted Johnston, BSc BA LLB (Auckland) New Conservative wishes to sound a note of caution against vaccinating healthy children for Covid. The equation is simple: what are the benefits, and what are the risks? The risks to healthy children who catch the

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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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Government Own-Goal Will Cost Students

As teacher shortages mount, National is again calling for COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins to urgently act and allocate MIQ spots for the teachers that he announced would be able to enter the country last July, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “National called on Minister Hipkins to allocate

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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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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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Worried about Your Child’s School and Vaccination?

Concerned Mum Many parents throughout New Zealand are grappling with uncertainty surrounding the government’s approval of the Pfizer vaccine rollout for 5-to-11-year-olds and the ongoing 12-plus rollout. For those of you who are thinking of writing to your school to seek clarity on whether the school intends to hold

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