Education
Who Will Hold the Adults to Account for Screwing Up Children’s Lives?
Alwyn Poole Recently the data from Trends in International Math and Science Study (TIMMS) came out. New Zealand’s results are an unmitigated disaster. New Zealand is locking our young people into a learning spiral that is opening out towards terminal velocity and has very little about it that could
Midwifery Student Wins Apology & Settlement From University After Facing Suspension for Being Pro-Life
righttolife.org.uk A midwifery student, who faced suspension from her studies due to her involvement in the university pro-life society, has won an apology and payout from her university. Julia Rynkiewicz, 25, faced suspension from the University of Nottingham and a four-month-long fitness-to-practice investigation in 2019 as a result
Who’s Converting Whom?
Barbara Kay mercatornet.com Barbara Kay studied English Literature – undergrad at U of Toronto and graduate studies at McGill. For many years she taught literature and composition part-time at various Quebec Cegeps. She was also… More by Barbara Kay A Canadian bill would ban ‘conversion therapy’ for gays, while parents
Failing Education
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Last week Radio NZ reported that schools around the country are paying tens of thousands of dollars to private consultants to help them improve the way they teach reading. They are introducing the so-called “structured literacy” approach, more commonly known as “phonics”. While backed by
Associate Minister of Education Needs Educating
Kelvin Davis, the Associate Minister of Education, is in something of a lather. He says Maoris deserve nothing less than achieving at the highest levels in the world whatever they do. Quite right Kelvin, but what is the best way to achieve this? Davis said among some teachers there was
Letter to the Editor: The Diversity & Inclusion Industry
Dear Editor Is the Diversity and Inclusion Industry in the business of selling Hate? “You can’t pick and choose the rules depending on the colour of someone’s skin. That is what the racists do.” Kemi Badenoch It is very important to see a Government calling out Critical Race
Serving Time
Alison McIntosh Tracy Harkison Auckland University of Technology Maria Gebbels University of Greenwich Prison food and fine dining aren’t usually mentioned together. But various initiatives around the world are changing that, with restaurants located within jails offering both culinary satisfaction and opportunities for positive social change. Prison catering and
Academics Too Gutless to Support Free Speech
If universities are breeding the leaders of the future, then we’re facing a horrifying and intellectually impoverished, darkened future. The Enlightenment is over, folks: the Inquisitors have won. In the 1960s, university students were the spear-carriers of the Free Speech Movement. Today, their children and grandchildren are tearing it
China Offended: A New Free Speech Scandal Brewing
Jordan Williams Free Speech Coalition There have been attacks on free speech in our universities for the past two years. Massey University banned Dr Don Brash from speaking at a student politics society event, Massey cancelled Speak Up for Women’s Feminism 2020 event, and Auckland University of Technology cancelled
Face of the Day
A much-loved teacher who died unexpectedly at home has been remembered by current and former students for his “cool police stories” and “great sense of humour”. Emergency services were called to the Christchurch home of former Australian police officer Jarrod O’Sullivan, 51, on Saturday. It is believed he died
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Inspiring Top End Students a Class Above
For all the “Closing the Gap” reports and billions of funding spent every year, the socio-economic markers for many Aboriginal Australians stubbornly lag behind the rest of the country. It’s surely without doubt that a huge contributor to that shocking discrepancy is the deplorable rate of Aboriginal truancy and
Anti-Semitism Surges in American Colleges
As can be read from Jeremy Corbyn’s bewildered response to his suspension from the British Labour Party for at the very least tolerating and covering up endemic anti-Semitism in the party, the left simply cannot comprehend that anyone could be left-wing and racist. After all, the left are the
Why Create When You Can Just Denigrate?
You can lead a mind to a diploma but you can’t make it think. In the past 50 years, the percentage of Western adults with a university degree has risen from about 10% to over 30%. The Western world has never been so educated. And so very, very stupid.
“Modun Eduycashun”: Dumb, but Woke
“Nearly all children nowadays were horrible…systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations. The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police” George Orwell, 1984 When Orwell conjured a vision of the future, he evoked a boot stamping on