National party Press Release: News that a principal was awarded contracts with the Ministry of Education worth hundreds of thousands of dollars while under investigation for sleeping naked with students needs an independent investigation, National’s Education spokesperson Nikki Kaye says. “The Teaching Council Disciplinary Tribunal recently cancelled Principal Uenuku
ACT Party Press Release: “The revelation that a Ministry of Education contractor was paid $500,000 without having any contact with students is yet another reason to downsize our education bureaucracy and free up resources to pay teachers more”, ACT Leader David Seymour says. “It is also deeply ironic that
This government targeted child welfare right from the get go. Ardern campaigned on fixing child “poverdy” saying “ let’s do this” and introducing a families package effective from 1 July 2018 that promised families would be better off. “By 2020/21, approximately 385,000 families with dependent children will be
University of Sydney Associate Professor Salvatore Babones says Chinese students choose Australia over other countries for their education because “our standards are lower”. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
Remember the told-you-so hilarity that swept the internet last year, when it was claimed that a “female-led construction company” was responsible for a bridge collapse in Florida? Although the meme was wrong in many respects, there was a core of relevance to the story: companies responsible for critical public works
Free Speech Coalition Press Release: The Free Speech Coalition urges the University of Canterbury to resist bullying calls to suppress student freedom of speech. As an arm of the state, Canterbury is bound to uphold the freedom of speech assured by the NZ Bill of Rights Act. As a university
Not only do New Zealanders have to deal with the farce of their local councils jumping onto the Chicken Little Climate Emergency Bandwagon, but now Lincoln University has jumped in gumboots and all as well! In a press release yesterday, Lincoln University stated that it wholeheartedly supports its students’ association
Many many years ago, I was partly involved in organising free lunches at a local school. The school was in a very poor area, the kids were coming to school hungry and we all know that hungry kids don’t learn. There were bakeries around that used to send the
Some years back, I was walking down the street when I was confronted with that scourge of the modern urban landscape: the Intersection ‘Honkers’. You know the ones: the invariably lefty activists (righties are presumably too busy actually working to be able to stand on street corners all day) forming
As Clive Hamilton argues in his book Silent Invasion, Australian institutions at all levels have been shockingly blind to the creeping threat of communist China. Successive governments, business, academia, even local councils, have been too dazzled by the lure of “Belt and Road Initiative” money to stop and give even
NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge says “any Australian education institute that’s got a formal arrangement with the Confucius Institute should come under vastly closer scrutiny”.
Hello Everyone, students, Rams, people, They / them / theirs /Ze / hir / hir and Nige. I am so pleased to see all you deplorables this Sunday morning ready to learn how to use inclusive language. Today the lesson is about a term that originally referred to a person, usually a soldier who
If you think legacy media reporting in general is bad, then you ought to try reading legacy media science reporting. Science reporting, more than any other it seems, has degenerated into simply regurgitating press releases. The “journalists” are generally woefully ignorant of basic scientific practice, let alone the rudiments of
The Rantykiwi top bloke award for this week goes to Cameron Davis, the principal of Riverton’s Aparima College. He’s stepped up and said cellphones have no place in schools, wants the community to back banning them from his school, and is calling the local community out for not
Students at George Washington University recently signed a petition to change the crosswalk sign from a ‘white man’ to something more diverse… If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nz
At least some of the useful idiots of Australian academia seem to be belatedly waking up to the fact that all that sweet, sweet Chinese money they’ve been gobbling blindly comes with some very cutting strings attached. The very people who indignantly screech about their “academic freedom!” when a
