Labour’s move to kill a National Member’s Bill to give primary and intermediate schools the tools to teach a second language is narrow-minded and misses a golden opportunity to equip our kids with greater language skills, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. Labour had previously supported
Peter Ridd’s case against James Cook University will be heard by the High Court at the end of this month. The case is a potential landmark judgment on academic freedom. But, considering it’s framed against a background of climate alarmism and allegedly dodgy science, don’t expect the
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s denials about ‘white privilege’ being taught in the classroom don’t stack up. Jacinda Ardern and other Ministers say teachers are being taught about ‘white privilege’, but that the idea won’t make its way into the classroom. That’s nonsense. A student
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The National Party agrees that teaching New Zealand history to our kids should be a core part of the curriculum, but we have serious concerns around elements of the current proposal, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “Aotearoa New Zealand’s Histories is designed to be taught every year
CensusAtSchool Co-director Rachel Cunliffe Seven out of ten New Zealand school students say that learning at home was the same or better during lockdown compared to learning in school normally, the latest results of a nationwide survey suggests. The insight comes from CensusAtSchool TataurangaKiTeKura, a non-profit, online educational
Lewis Andrew sojournal.co.nz In our previous article, we evaluated the first module of Unteach Racism, finding it to be worthy of an F- grade. Today we are moving on to module 2 entitled “Low Self Belief”. We come to this second module with lower expectations, given the pure
Don Brash bassettbrashandhide.com Don Brash was Reserve Bank Governor from 1988 to 2002, and National Party Leader from 2003 to 2006 The proposed History curriculum is so bad that it is hard to know where to start. Indeed, in the limited time I have to write a submission, I
Hobson’s Pledge Trust We agree that the draft history curriculum divides history into villains and victims, contains significant gaps, and pushes a narrow set of highly political stories from our past, as a new petition on the ACT Party’s website states. The draft curriculum’s “three big ideas”
Hobson’s Pledge Trust Despite denials from our Prime Minister, there is no sign of any retreat from in-class race-shaming rituals intended to eliminate racism, but which end up making some children feel guilty about their skin colour. On Monday, ACT Party leader David Seymour called a Ministry
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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 rewrite. ACT has today released its submission on the draft New Zealand history curriculum and set up a petition calling for a complete
Renae Barker The University of Western Australia Renae Barker is a lecturer in law at the University of Western Australia and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Muslim States and Societies. She completed her PhD at UWA in 2014. The New South Wales government has put a temporary
