Just the latest chapter in NZ's sad history since the collapse of organised class struggle. The capitalist class know NZ is ripe for the picking and there is realistically not going to be any effective resistance to selling off what's left and push wages ...
You couldn't make this smoking for revenue stuff up its insane. Capital suffering the relentless falling rate of profit staggers to new lows where now we see their state literally cashing in thousands of working/underclass lives to generate cash to hand ...
Anti-Neoliberal - are they though? NZF website lists their economic management inspiration as the Irish Celtic Tiger and Singapore.
Thank you Iprent
Thank you for that correction Anne. Agreed. Further evidence that changing leader is fatal for governments in New Zealand
Whaddya mean it's not the policy? It was the literal draft curriculum, vague as it was.
Yeah most of it is either platitudes or uninterpretable. Sadly not so far from the flavour of a lot of MoE productions.
I’ve seen it, I imagine hundreds of academics have, it was making the rounds a few weeks ago. The problem with waiting for the final version is the bureaucracy will consider it a done deal and a fait accompli, shifting the direction of the MoE’s various ...
This passage just gradually descends into vague New-Agey thumb-twiddling. Not everything has to do everything. Basic science education is not an appropriate place to attempt to bring about a revolution in consciousness to bring about a new age of Aquarius,...
The Sokal Hoax - it needs more attention in NZ for sure!
... ever at draft stage afaik. - Nick Matzke
"Self-guided learning" seems to be correlated with big drops in student performance in NZ and elsewhere. What if it's just a feel-good fad that become doctrine on the Left for some silly reason?
Planet and atmosphere are social constructs? This is just postmodern relativist twaddle, which scientists have seen to be silly since at least the 1990s. For some reason postmodernism is still popular in NZ, it's like people never heard of the Sokal Hoax ...
"This is the fundamental issue with the climate and ecology crises, more fundamental even than the politics imo. The western mind is taught to see the world as parts, and this is why we treat the world like a machine instead of whole system composed of ...
As far as I can tell, NZ "curricula" would barely qualify as curricula in most other countries. They are short and vague. Most places, a curriculum is a long and pretty thorough document that lists all the core concepts required to ensure that a minimum ...
Kiwirail should join up the Gisborne to BoP link and thus complete a Great NZ Eastern Rail. Apart from tourism and freight etc, it would greatly open up all eastern N Is. Land. Why does no one suggest this but me? Costly, but surely logical.
I would use the examples of Germany or the Republic of Ireland. Neither are perfect, but they are functioning democracies like NZ. The cost question depends on what model you have. I always thought basically turning the current Governor General into the ...
Let women speak. Also, if we are letting women speak, make sure we aren’t just letting women from a particular perspective speak. We also need to let trans and non binary people speak. Not all trans people were born men, so members of the trans community ...
Hi -- sorry for slow reply. The basics were all explained back in February 2022 here -- Chemistry prof. Paul Kilmartin gave a seminar on the topic, I wrote it up: https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2022/02/NZ-mauri-chemistry-kilmartin-seminar.html He also ...
Something like 80% plus of people involved in the media professed to be left of centre politically. thus one the few occasions that a right of centre commentator is allowed air time they are excoriated by the other 80%.
Yes, sorry the para’s were there in the draft but when a published not so much. I will try another method next time 🤦♂️
I did laugh out loud when I read....unbiassed intellectual heavy hitters like Heather Du Plessis Allan, Sean Plunkett, Bryce Edwards and Russell Coutts.... Here are four simple reasons. But anyway, I thought the main emphasis of the commissioners interview...
McFlock, you confirm the reason I left this site. I will again leave you to your squalid fetid opinions. Goodbye, good riddance.
Everything you allege about the rape allegations were disproven, even the "complainants" said so. Yet despite all the evidence of judicial persecution for political purposes the woke brigade chose to heap abuse because of ideological witch hunting fervour....
McFlock, that sounds disingenuous. The "Assange is a rapist brigade" got played like so many useful idiots by those wanting Assange silenced. Useful idiots is too kind, hardly covers their desire to hang Assange for unproven crimes against wokester ...
Several years ago I stopped commenting on this site (under another name) primarily because of the abuse defending Assange garnered you from the likes of QOT and other wokesters quoting Feminism 101. He was despite no confirmatory evidence deemed a rapist. ...
Probably not that compliant in other areas such as donations either.
The Greens Marama and Chloe billboard letter placement seems out. Should have had much bigger 'Green Vote twice' and push down the other white lettering as there's lots of dead, dark unused space below. The background image also has white bits under the ...
Yes I saw that also and thought she was crap, gets paid to manoeuvre people to be nasty and devious. [Please stick to the same user name and e-mail address that you have used here before; most recent comment was 21 July 2020, thanks – Incognito]
Another slur on a human being of Chinese origin from the left of politics in New Zealand (remember Phil Twyford's Chinese names debacle?) with no evidential basis whatsoever. I happen to know Raymond, and worked with him for two years. He's a thoroughly ...
Another one bites the dust And another ones gone And another ones gone Another one bites the dust
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