The proposed removal of specialised commerce subjects at NCEA Level 1 is going to leave Kiwis without strong financial and economic literacy, National MPs Todd McClay and Paul Goldsmith say. Today Mr McClay will accept a petition urging the Government to reverse its decision to remove the specialised economics, business
Harry Hunt In 2017, the Labour party campaigned on making the first year of university free. It was a policy that turned many heads; both of newly eligible voters, and of parents. In 2020, they promised to continue fees free, in a world where they had already spent more than
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The utter foolishness of so many academics is constantly brought to our attention. But it’s never been more disgracefully displayed than by Auckland university hierarchy’s sheer mind-blowing stupidity in condemning five of their number for speaking the truth, namely, there’s no
Free Speech Union The Free Speech Union unequivocally supports the free expression of seven distinguished New Zealand academics who recently authored a letter to The Listener, titled, In Defence of Science as well as the free expression of their critics. We neither support nor oppose the argument in question, but
Simon McCallum Edward Schofield Stephen Dobson Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Simon has been teaching Computer Science since 1999 with Game specific courses from 2004. Edward is currently a professional staff member at Victoria University in Wellington, although he has a small Academic Background and completed postgraduate studies
The Government must implement a standardised way to measure progress to make sure no children fall through the cracks, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “If a child is falling through the cracks, then they’re missing out on all the opportunities a good education provides. “We need a
Alwyn Poole Villa Education Trust Innovative Education Consultants There has been some digging going on with the level of disengagement with state schools in New Zealand and some recent releases of 2020 system-wide qualifications statistics. Keeping it simple: There are 826,347 school students in New Zealand. 10,500
There are some things, Orwell said, that are so stupid that only an intellectual could believe them. But “intellectuals” ain’t what they used to be: increasingly, universities are turning out graduates who can barely read or do basic high school maths. And that’s just the Teaching graduates. Naturally,
New Zealand’s truancy crisis is only going to get worse if schools aren’t required to submit their attendance data, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. Data released to National shows a third of our kids aren’t regularly attending school, with the situation even worse for decile
Free Speech Union The Free Speech Union is backing a University Lecturer’s fight for academic freedom, against University of Waikato attempts to stop him from describing people as “cranks”, who claim on religious authority that the earth is flat, and that people lived alongside dinosaurs. Dr Raymond Richards who
The bootlickers and cowards cheering on lockdowns like to accuse people demanding their most basic freedoms of being “selfish”. But who’s really selfish? The person who advocates that the tiny minority vulnerable and afraid should be protected should they so wish, while everyone else be allowed to choose to
We truly live in Clown World when an academic is forced to resign from his job because he pointed out that a stone-age people who didn’t even have cooking pots let alone the wheel or a written language did not have any form of science. Did he tell
Alwyn Poole Villa Education Trust Innovative Education Consultant Dear Office of the Ombudsman I apologise for elevating this to your level but I believe we have run out of other avenues and do not have anything like the financial resources to legally challenge the Ministry of Education for their ongoing
Jennifer Kabbany thecentersquare.com (The College Fix) – Journalism professors at UNC Chapel Hill are protesting a “core values” statement that upholds objectivity as a key tenet of news reporting. Faculty members of UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media converged last week to bemoan a statement of values that’
Proposals for NCEA science risk taking our curriculum down a rabbit hole at a time when the Government should be focused on turning around our declining achievement in science, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. The proposals divide science into ‘matauranga putaiao’ (Maori understanding of the natural world) and
Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz Exclusion is the title of module 6 of the Unteach Racism app which the Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand in conjunction with the Human Rights Commission with typical bureaucratic efficiency has spent a number of years developing. If you wish to review the earlier
