Redline The Council of Disobedient Women John Fenaughty is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland. In a recent column Fenaughty suggested that school teachers should use students’ “correct names and pronouns (e.g., he, him, they, them, she, her, etc.
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World describes a future “World State” where children are inculcated with lessons on sex and class consciousness, where “erotic play between children” is a core component of their education. Huxley intended his work as satire, but in the Clown World of 2019, it’s becoming
Australia once led the world in education standards. Then we had the Long March through the institutions. Australian education became “progressive” and “inclusive”. The “latest pegagogies” and “21st century learning styles” were embraced by education bureaucrats and teachers’ unions alike. And the results are in. Australian education rankings have steadily
Labour announced that it will spend $400 million on schools; they will fast track some of its infrastructure projects and they will borrow to do it, thus loosening the Budget Responsibility Rules that they have adhered to so tightly up until now. In other words, the 2020 election campaign has
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I received this email yesterday from my son’s school about a climate change re-education session run by Christchurch city council. What a dirty scam giving us no time to question this. I am giving my son the day off today! Dear Parents, just a couple of points for the
Press Release: National Party Todd Muller NZQA needs to front up to concern that has been created by questions in their exams painting a one-sided picture of New Zealand’s farmers, National’s Agriculture spokesperson Todd Muller says. “Students who sat their NCEA level three English exam were tasked with
Well boo-hoo-hoo! Victoria University academics are our crybabies of the week as they now realise the true cost of their climate change / Green nonsense. “Academics are grumbling over Victoria University of Wellington’s five-point emissions reduction plan saying its goal will inevitably come from staff members’ pockets.” stuff.co.nz/
It seems that the lefties have finally done something useful and worthwhile. The Universities and Colleges Union in the UK has declared that anyone should be allowed to ‘identify’ as black (or, presumably, Maori) regardless of the colour of their skin or background. The union, which represents 120,000 academics,
Press Release: ACT Party Tertiary institutions will be legally required to protect academic freedom and free speech on campus or risk losing funding under a new member’s bill proposed by ACT Leader David Seymour. “There is a growing danger of taxpayer-funded universities abusing their health and safety obligations in
Redline Information Satire The Committee of Disobedient Women has intercepted an email from Dr Emma Eejut, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Massey University to the university’s Vice-Chancellor, Jan Thomas. Dear Jan, Thank you for your courageous move. I think 10 pages of blether** should tie any of the students game
The ACT party is fast becoming the Free Speech party of New Zealand politics. David Seymour has withdrawn a Free Speech Bill in order to strength it further by making tertiary institutions’ funding dependant on them taking “ all reasonable steps to protect academic freedom and free speech”. No doubt this
We have written previously on The BFD about Massey University’s recently announced free speech (snort!) policy and rules. Sadly, just like George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth which was actually the Ministry of Propaganda, their free speech is anything but free. Stephen Franks writes that “Massey Council has doubled
IINZ A recent petition from Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) demanded an end to small annual university prizes funded by the Israeli Embassy. The Israeli Ambassador funds two annual prizes, worth a total of $750 NZD, at Victoria University of Wellington. These are the only New Zealand scholarships funded
