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
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson The Government’s newly-announced Curriculum Advisory Group boasts that it ‘represents the interests of all parts of the education system,’ but they forgot the rest of society. The Group has all sorts of people who work in education, but it doesn’t have anyone
Robert Bridge strategic-culture.org Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. There’s a war on for the hearts and minds of children across the U.S. and the battlefield has become the very schools that millions of Americans are required to send their kids for a state-
More than any other prime minister, Robert Menzies was responsible for putting Australia on the higher education map. Under Menzies, Australia’s universities tripled, and enrolments skyrocketed. True to Menzies’ word that “a university education is not, and certainly should not be, the perquisite of a privileged few,” and “finance
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson The ACT Party is calling on teachers and Ministry of Education staff who feel uncomfortable being forced into Critical Race Theory training to reject it. ACT revealed yesterday that more than half of Education Ministry staff have been through a course called ‘Courageous Conversations about
David Seymour ACT Leader It is entirely inappropriate that the people who set the policy for our schools are undertaking courses that teach them “guilt and shame” are natural responses to so-called “white privilege.” After ACT revealed school kids were being taught about “white privilege”, we can now reveal
July 20th, 2021. In 1966 6% of young people went to university but by 2018 this had reached 50.2%. Tony Blair achieved this as one of his policies. With the long march of socialism through the universities and higher education, this means that the young are now being trained
Bob McCoskrie National Director Family First NZ A new poll released on Monday by Family First NZ has sent a clear message to the Government – don’t politicise schools, and keep critical race theory out of the classroom. In the independent poll of 1,000 New Zealanders surveyed by Curia
