Education
Leading Black Intellectual Hammers Leftist Academics
A recent Pew survey has proven what most of us had already gathered just by watching the news: the vast bulk of Black Lives Matter and Antifa activists, and the Cancel Culture bully mobs, are pasty-white lefties. Meanwhile, a growing number of prominent black Americans are taking exception to the
School Teaching Students What to Think Not How to Think
Stuff reports on an Auckland school that has decided to make its views on cannabis legalisation known by means of a billboard. A digital sign displayed on a school board outside St Paul’s College in Ponsonby reads: “To legalise is to normalise. Say no.” The sign doesn’t state
Degrees in Virtue Signalling Now Offered
Information Satire The Minister for Education, Chris Hipkins announced today that degrees in virtue signalling will be available in all universities throughout New Zealand. They will start at Diploma and go right through to Doctorate level. The well-known virtue signalling expert and twitter maestro, Dr Geronimaux Fountique-Welliver will have overall
It’s Better Not to Engage in the BLM Debate
Douglas Murray’s advice about responding to the BLM movement is not to play the racist game. He says you cannot win and gives the example of a UK discussion paper titled ‘Inequalities and Racial Discrimination’ produced by the Birmingham and Solihull NHS Mental Health Trust (BAME). The appropriate and
Postcard from Canada: July 07
Geoffrey Corfield Geoffrey Corfield has been active in Conservative politics in Canada since 1976, both federally and provincially. But he won’t always write about politics because he has more experience with writing history and humour. He lives in London, Ontario, frequents used book shops, swims lengths, drinks beer, plays
Has America Run Its Course?
Doug “Uncola” Lynn thetollonline.com In this four-minute video below, American young people were asked questions about American history. Listen to their answers and you’ll know how our nation was lost. Even if you only have 30-seconds, start at the 3:54 mark and hear a teacher admit how
Trump Rewinds the Clock on American Academia; Judith Collins Upskills to Stay Ahead
The best job I ever had was ten years of roller coaster fun and excitement that on paper I was nowhere near equipped for. I did not have the university degrees that would be considered essential these days. My prospective employer was unfazed, saying the position required two non-academic attributes.
Why the Humanities Must Be Saved
There’s no denying that the Humanities are in crisis at our universities. The question is: what to do about it. There’s one argument that might be called “Technological Philistinism”, which urges the junking of Humanities altogether. Like H. G. Wells’s Artilleryman, with his visceral disdain for “novels
Should We Bring Back Overseas Students?
Now that the world is opening up again, the government finds itself under pressure to follow suit, at least in a limited way. Kiwis are now allowed to travel overseas, with the clear understanding that they will face 14 days quarantine on their return (which presumably will not be funded
Weak Uni Reform Risks Unintended Consequences
The earthquake that’s shaken Australia’s university sector in the wake of the Xi Plague is a prime opportunity to deliver much-needed reform to the sector. But the Morrison government is fluffing it. Australian universities are on their knees, suddenly deprived of rivers of foreign student cash. The growing
Oxford Fights Back (Maybe)
[Editor’s note]: There have been questions raised about the original source of the following letter doing the rounds on Facebook. For the purposes of discussion of the points made in the letter, I have reproduced it below. Given the rude tone of the letter, I think that it is
An Unexpected Reality – Autism
GoingRight Autism, or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), refers to a broad range of conditions characterised by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviour, speech and non verbal communications. A few days after Christmas, younger daughter and her English husband visited us and let us know their decision to go and live
What Our Despicable Media Didn’t Tell You about ”Black Lives Matter”
Students at St Andrews College in Christchurch and Marist College in Auckland put up Black Lives Matter posters which were promptly ripped down by the authorities. The students were furious and went straight to media claiming systemic racism. From a student at Marist College in Auckland: “We’ve had a
The Grooming Going on in Plain Sight in the Classroom
When the “pizzagate” conspiracy theory first erupted in right-wing political circles, I thought it was the nuttiest conspiracy theory I’d heard since the 80s “Satanic Panic”. In fact, the two seemed almost identical. I still think pizzagate is a nutty conspiracy. But, just because there’s a nutty conspiracy