David Seymour ACT Leader Certain vocal principals’ responses to ACT policy this morning shows exactly why teacher pay and conditions, and student test scores, have declined under their leadership. Yesterday, ACT announced it would raise standards for teachers to re-register, including meeting higher standards in maths, English and science. We
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party is calling for higher standards for our teachers when renewing their practicing certificates. Across all of the standardised international measures, PISA, PIRLS, and TIMSS, New Zealand students are in a sustained decline. Students today are learning less than they were 10 years ago.
Parents and teachers will be disappointed that in a Budget with about $15 billion worth of new spending, so little was devoted to pressing challenges in education, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “While a little bit of help was promised for Alternative Education and intensive support for children
Judy Maynard aijac.org.au In a step hailed as “unprecedented”, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has been censured by the European Parliament (EP) for the use of school textbooks that contain hate speech and incitement to violence. The European
Chris Baillie ACT Education spokesperson and former teacher The Government’s New Zealand history curriculum threatens to indoctrinate students in left-wing ideas and requires a radical overhaul. The draft New Zealand history curriculum, which is out for consultation until 31 May, requires students to learn a narrow set of highly
The Government should be focusing on making sure our kids are at school and learning, rather than have them discuss their white privilege, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Discussions around race and inequality are important and we should be having them. “But making young children discuss their ‘white
Australia’s taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda network, the ABC, actually takes Bruce Pascoe’s ludicrous Dark Emu seriously: so seriously that it commissioned a “documentary” series based on it. This is, I might remind BFD readers, a book by an “Aboriginal” (despite having no identifiable Aboriginal ancestors that anyone has been
Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz A new website called Unteach Racism has been set up for teachers in New Zealand. Apparently, this is the result of a few years of collaboration between the Teaching Council and the Human Rights Commission. The stated aim of the website is to support teachers
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government needs to explain why a new education programme is teaching primary school children about ‘white privilege. The promise of our country is to value each person as we find them and value their human dignity without prejudice. A policy that asks children to apologise
I’m sure most of us could tell a similar story: in my high school years, it was common schoolyard knowledge that one of the teachers was “shagging” a student. The pair married almost immediately after she finished school in Year 11. Whether they’re still married, I have no
Dr James McDowall ACT MP A Bill introduced to the UK Parliament this week shares the same goal as my Member’s Bill and should be debated here in New Zealand. Free speech on campus is critical. Fostering the ability of students to discuss and debate ideas is an essential
righttolife.org.uk The Queen’s Speech has set out the Government’s intentions to introduce laws designed to protect freedom of speech at universities. In her speech this Tuesday as part of the State Opening of Parliament, the Queen outlined the Government’s intention to push ahead with the
Dane Giraud Spokesperson Free Speech Union A University of Waikato professor has apologised after saying the n-word during a lecture, as part of a discussion about the reclamation of offensive terms. According to the NZ Herald: The University of Waikato professor was teaching a lecture on representation and reclaiming terms
