Education
Reality of Mandate Monday Sets In, Testing Alternative Needed
David Seymour ACT Leader As the reality of teachers and nurses walking away from their jobs sets in today, ACT is again calling for the mandate to allow regular testing as an alternative to vaccination. ACT is pro-vaccination; we are frustrated by those who are refusing the vaccine. But
Mt Hobson Academy to Offer Nationwide Private School Online Option
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
Mt Hobson Academy to Offer Nationwide Private School Online Option
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
Should the Government Get To Decide What You Do after High School?
Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an Editorial Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. If you’re in high school, you probably get asked a lot about what you plan to do after you graduate. Maybe
Mandate Monday Should Have Testing Alternative
David Seymour ACT Leader With the onset of widespread vaccine mandates about to create chaos in multiple sectors, it’s time for the Government to apply the approach of the Danish Government, Air New Zealand, and its own requirement for teachers to all mandates. That is, the mandate should allow
Believe It or Not
Do you sometimes feel as if the world has gone completely mad? Let me assure you that it has. It really has. First let’s start with this. What? Medical exemptions have to be signed off by Reichsfuhrer Bloomfield himself, so there is no chance of this lady faking her
Free To Teach
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Mt Hobson Academy to Offer Nationwide Private School Online Option
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
Why Isn’t Testing Enough?
Confused Why isn’t testing enough? I thought I was a logical person but my ability to understand what is driving decisions here in NZ has disappeared. The UK has just been through 20 months of having Covid widespread in the community. Essential workers were carrying out their tasks before
Do They Realise How Bad This Sounds?
How do those Police jackboots feel as they stomp all over your rights? Jacinda Ardern’s regime is now telling schools that if any unvaccinated teachers dare to show up to work next week the schools should call their local Police to have them forcibly removed from the school premises:
Bill of Rights Set Aside
NZTSOS Inc. “Kiwi’s should now be concerned that the New Zealand Bill of Rights can be set aside anytime the Government of the day chooses. How is that possible?” said Mike Shaw Spokesperson for NZTSOS Inc. NZTSOS members were very disappointed to learn today of the outcome of their
Will This Be the World’s First Anti-woke University?
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. Earlier this year, Harvard professor Carole Hooven found herself in hot water. An expert in evolutionary biology and the author of the recent book, Testosterone, she criticised the use of phrases like “pregnant people” in a media interview. Wrong,
National Releases Plan to Get School Students Back on Track
Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins and National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith on Wednesday released National’s education plan to get school students back on track and make up for lost class time. National’s ‘Back on Track’ plan calls for the immediate reopening of schools to give students
Mandate Hammers Low Decile Schools
Alwyn Poole Things have been trending very badly in our education system for the last twenty years. Through an increasingly simplistic and low bar NCEA system we have been able to pretend that progress is being made. However, the gaps between low decile, Maori and Pasifika students as compared to
How Do NZ’s Vaccinated Teachers Have Those Hard Conversations with Their Anti-vax Colleagues?
Paul Heyward University of Auckland Paul Heyward’s Research areas include: How teachers make ethically challenging decisions, The ethical nature of teaching, Teacher professionalism, The place of a Code of Ethics/Conduct in the lives of professionals, Drama as a pedagogical approach in tertiary education settings, Critical reflection, Gender dynamics