An Auckland teacher has a plan to advance te reo Maori teaching “by 20 years” by getting it on one of the world’s leading language learning platforms. Alwyn Poole of Villa Education Trust has been talking to American company Rosetta Stone for more than a year, and says the
Dr David Cumin israelinstitute.nz Documents obtained under the Official Information Act by the Israel Institute of New Zealand show that, for the first time ever, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) briefed the minister about hate and incitement to violence taught in NZ-funded UNRWA schools. However, officials
Way back in August 2017, not long before New Zealand’s last General Election, Jacinda Ardern stood before a bunch of enthralled, mainly Pacifica school kids at Kelston Girls High and announced that should the Labour Party win the upcoming election, they would give five ‘free‘ driving lessons, a defensive
Britain dodged an anti-Semitic bullet last year, when it rejected Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party under his leadership. But does the world’s oldest hatred die that easily? While Jew-hating is usually assumed to a “right wing” phenomeneon, what’s immediately noticeable about its modern eructation is just how
Alwyn Poole One of your senior members said to me, “I know children don’t vote,” but in New Zealand, things are a mess and the impact on the future especially for the people you are not normally seen to represent — Maori, Pasifika and the poor — is immense. You have
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Press Release: National Party National will double the size of New Zealand’s technology sector by 2030 with a $1.29 billion plan that will aim to create at least 100,000 new high-paying, future-proofed tech jobs. “Doubling the size of the technology sector by 2030 is an ambitious goal,
The man behind a court challenge to Otago University’s medical school admissions scheme is getting support from other parents whose children missed out. The medical school’s Mirror on Society policy, introduced in 2012, means domestic students fitting into special categories get preferential entry into Otago medical school. The
In my many conversations with the Trump-deranged, one thing is immediately obvious. Their visceral reaction to Trump is entirely personal. Policies run a distant second to their emotional gut-reactions. It’s Orange Man Bad, all the way. To which I always answer, “Sure, he’s an asshole. I won’t
Demography is destiny. Seven decades of Communist Party policies have left China with a soon-to-crash tsunami of the aged and male. The Middle East and Africa’s impoverished fecundity is flooding the West with single young men on the take. In the West, the children of the Baby Boom generation
“Ignorance is Strength”, ran the motto of the socialist Party in Orwell’s 1984. Decades of left-wing domination of the education system has produced a generation so astonishingly ignorant that their know-nothingness is practically a superpower. Students today are the Supermen of Ignorance. Their ignorance is so thoroughgoing that, despite
The Prime Minister has said that we should know her Government by their deeds. So far those deeds haven’t amounted to much more than non-delivery of bumper sticker slogans. But we are implored to “keep moving”. One of their flagship policies at the last election was the fees-free programme
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If there’s one thing you can say about the Long March left, they’re persistent. And, like the Maoists their strategy takes its name and inspiration from, dab hands at sneakery and treachery. The Maoists took persistent advantage of the naivete and openness of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists to
Ruth Boyask Auckland University of Technology The anger and outrage expressed by school leaders and teacher unions towards Green Party co-leader James Shaw’s announcement of a government grant of NZ$11.7 million to the private Green School New Zealand comes at a time of financial high anxiety. Ordinarily,
When the Morrison government agreed to conduct a royal commission into the banking sector, Australia’s academics weren’t backwards in coming forward with their pious opinions about the wicked capitalists. But academics shouldn’t be so quick to throw stones – not when their ivory towers are looking more and
