Disclosure: Male, Pale and Stale has a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), concerning Supply and Demand Theory as applied to Education – it has never helped him to get a job, but he is aware of how the industry operates On March 2nd 2022, in the NZ Herald, Chloe Swarbrick published
Vinay Prasad brownstone.org Vinay Prasad MD MPH is a hematologist-oncologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. He runs the VKPrasad lab at UCSF, which studies cancer drugs, health policy, clinical trials and better decision making. He is
Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants Dear Iona Many readers will not have name recognition for you in your role as Secretary for Education in NZ. I have noted that until last year all emails coming out from your officials had the footer: We shape an education system that delivers equitable
As Bettina Arndt and Christina Hoff-Summers are pointing out — to the screeching fury of triggered feminist frightbats everywhere — the education is systematically failing boys. Read that sentence properly: it’s the system which is failing boys. Boys might be failing schools in ever-increasing numbers, but that’s because
Megan Mansell brownstone.org Megan Mansell is a former district education director over special populations integration, serving students who are profoundly disabled, immunocompromised, undocumented, autistic, and behaviorally challenged; she also has a background in hazardous environs PPE applications. Many among us weren’t our top notch picture-perfect version of
Alwyn Poole alwynpoole.substack.com 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
Mainstream media reporting on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, especially from the ABC, focussed almost exclusively on the damning accusations against churches. This was not unmerited — but the one-eyed hyper-focus of the media left the bigger picture entirely obscured. There is no doubt
Anyone who’s been to school in the last 50 years will be familiar with it: Girls can do anything! Boys… well, boys can just learn to shut up and sit still. Since 1972, under the Whitlam government, Australian schools have relentlessly pursued strategies to encourage girls’ achievement in schools.
NZTSOS New Zealand Teachers Speaking out with Science Buoyed by the significant ruling of Justice Francis Cooke in favour of the police and Defence Force on Friday, education staff from across the country are expecting a positive result for their case against Minister of Covid-19 Response, the Director-General
NZTSOS Inc. New Zealand Teachers Speaking Out with Science Incorporated NZTSOS Inc. (New Zealand Teachers Speaking Out with Science Incorporated) will take their case against the Minister of Covid-19 Response, the Director-General of Health and the Attorney-General to the High Court in Wellington over the next week
Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz mthobson.school.nz Key Stats on NZ Education * Our system is in long-term decline against international measures and some subjects and levels have us as the worst English speaking nation. * PISA had NZ as the worst national for in school bullying.
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Mt Hobson Academy Alwyn Poole As articles like this are quickly multiplying … https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-omicron-outbreak-school-teachers-infected-with-covid-omicron-cases-expected-to-spike-this-week/NWTWUZTKZN2OYFX5O3YARE2XHI/ … there is a very good alternative to guarantee families a high quality and disruption-free
Today’s face of the day represents children discriminated against and segregated all over New Zealand. This injustice and mistreatment have been allowed to happen because our PM has made it socially acceptable for schools and other organisations to treat others as second class citizens. There is no team of
Alwyn Poole Innovative Education Consultants innovativeeducation.co.nz mthobson.school.nz Key Stats on NZ Education * Our system is in long-term decline against international measures and some subjects and levels have us as the worst English speaking nation. * PISA had NZ as the worst national for in school bullying.
Paul Frijters Gigi Foster Michael Baker brownstone.org Paul Frijters is a Professor of Wellbeing Economics at the London School of Economics: from 2016 through November 2019 at the Center for Economic Performance, thereafter at the Department of Social Policy Gigi Foster, senior scholar of Brownstone Institute, is a Professor
