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School league tables are harmful to education. Tables based on "ropey data" are even worse. In this open letter 100 academics speak out against league tables. We are a group of New Zealand academics teaching and researching in universities. As a group we are very…
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Right now 28 miners are stuck down a Waihi mine with a fire causing noxious gases. 15 people are being decontaminated at Tiwai Point after an 'incident'. At 3.30am the driver of a truck-trailer loaded pressurised cylinders died after crashing into Bulls RSA - probably…
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Could we be about to have our very own Scopes trial? In that famous Tennessee Court Case, the State prosecuted a teacher for teaching evolution. He walked free (on a technicality) and it was a decisive moment in mainstreaming evolution and making the creationists the…
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There's some interesting speculation that the Government could collapse within months. The theory goes that the Government could lose its majority due to 1) the Maori Party walking away over the water rights issue and 2) John Banks being forced to resign over illegally anonymised…
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Even John Key is now admitting that the asset sale program is facing a serious legal challenge: John Key concedes likely asset sales delay Prime Minister John Key has conceded the first asset sale could be delayed because a legal challenge from Maori over water…
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Which will be remembered as the greater crime in Key's legacy: selling off our strategically vital and profitable energy assets leading to higher power prices or standing by and doing nothing while another housing bubble fueled by cheap foreign credit leaves us more indebted and…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI5ulKiZAoE
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RNZ is reporting that National has spent $216m just on the investigation and design stage of its Roads of National Significance so far (and that's only 5 of the 7 projects). Most of it on outside contractors Look, I get this kind of shit can be surprisingly expensive.…
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Darkhorse writes amazingly insightful economic pieces on his ‘How Daft’ blog (the title gives you a clue as to what he thinks of the current state of affairs). The neoliberal experiment has been an abject failure by any rational measure. And there are alternatives. Darkhorse…
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Now the Nats want want editorial control over the school newsletter: Minister to schools: keep politics out of newsletters Education Minister Hekia Parata has told the School Trustees Association to keep politics out of school newsletters. Or - what? What is the threat here? Cuts…
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The latest Roy Morgan poll has Labour+Greens neck and neck with National again on 45.5%. The trend is quite clear just looking at the Roy Morgan graphs. National is going down, Labour+Greens is going up. And when you look at the key levels that the…
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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike...