Chris Penk First published by The BFD 26th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Lessons learnt? The stresses and strains on New Zealand’s teaching fraternity must have been enormous. As always, I take my
Alwyn Poole Among many of the things deliberately hidden behind the pandemic curtain is that the education system that is spiralling out of control. A disconnected Minister. A Ministry with entirely incompetent and invisible leadership. Around 60% of all students fully attending and only around 40% of Decile 1 – 3
Willem Hollmann Lancaster University Fascinated since a young age by language and what it tells us about what makes us human, Willem Hollmann considers himself to be very lucky to be a linguist. He studied at the Universities of Amsterdam and Manchester, and since 2003 has worked at Lancaster University.
Andy Mullins mercatornet.com Dr Andy Mullins now works with parents and university students in Melbourne and teaches the Formation of Character course at the University of Notre Dame in Sydney. Formerly he was headmaster of Redfield and Wollemi Colleges in Sydney. He is the author of Parenting for Character.
Confirmation today that Auckland students will spend another two weeks trying to learn from home underscores the need for better guidelines to make sure kids are actually engaged in education, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Rather than shift the school holidays forward, the Government has preferred to carry
Alwyn Poole As stated before – with good advice and superb help – I have been able to process a data set that has information and ranks every high school in NZ on: * Level 3 NCEA results – UE results. * Retention until 17 yo. * Comparisons of deciles and attendance by decile. The information
familyfirst.org.nz Below are some excerpts from the interview with Megyn Kelly (full article here) “In my sons’ school they asked the boys, one of the best all-boys schools in the country, whether they were ‘still sure’ they were boys,” Kelly said. “Are they ‘still sure’? They asked them
CFACT Ed cfact.org CFACT — We’re freedom people. Dear Provost Susan Jeffords, I’m writing to you today to resign as assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University. Over the last decade, it has been my privilege to teach at the university. My specialties are critical thinking, ethics
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. This year we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll’s famous novel about Alice’s absurd adventures in a world of upended logic. Amongst her many memorable conversations is this one with
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A senior New Zealand medical figure has sent me the following. It speaks for itself about the commercialisation of our universities, tailoring nonsense degrees to fit the intellectually challenged. BUY Your Own First Edition Hardcover Signed Copy of Sir Bob’s Latest Book Today. Please
Alwyn Poole Information Opinion Tracey Martin became a member of parliament on the coattails of Winston Peters. When Peters and NZ First did not get over the 5% line in 2020 Martin suddenly announced that the party’s values did not match hers and promptly left a ship she helped
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Auckland University has announced via a newspaper full page advertorial, a new degree course, specifically a Bachelor of Communications. I don’t believe in my long life of 10 hours daily reading, I’ve ever read such abominable guff. Reading through the advert’s verbiage
Education Minister Chris Hipkins is mythmaking about the impact of school closures on learning, no doubt to downplay the impact of his Government’s failures over Covid, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Yesterday in Parliament Mr Hipkins asserted that results for students were as good or slightly better
Alwyn Poole The Ministry of Education in NZ have as their motto that: “We shape an education system that delivers equitable and excellent outcomes.” The data tells a very different story. Our system is stratified in terms of socio-economics (decile), ethnicity, gender, schools types (faith-based vs value-free). Even these comments
