Written By:
all_your_base - Date published:
10:00 am, February 23rd, 2010 - 4 comments
Categories: education, Social issues -
Tags: ACE, anne tolley, ppta, steven joyce
The Post Primary Teachers’ Association have just launched a YouTube video protesting National’s hugely unpopular cuts to night classes.
The video highlights the shortsightedness of the 80% cuts based on cost/benefit, pointing out that in the process of educating 220,000 learners a year New Zealand gets back over 30 times its investment in Adult Community Education in economic and social gains.
I wonder what the rate of return on that extra $35 million for private schools was worth…
Source: www.dimming.co.nz
In the 2004 film Downfall (Der Untergang), which portrays Hitler’s last days in a Berlin bunker, he says that if the German people are weak they deserve death. It is a view from philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who argued that conflicts are won by those with the strongest will. ...
An online petition calling for Tolly to attend night classes in economics may be in order by the look of things.
0.5% return or less would be my guess. It seems to be the National (Party) Standard for giving them and their owners taxpayer money.