Presumably there are students who do really well in that environment though, even if it's not anywhere near all of them, and obviously there are students who do really poorly in that environment. Ideally, it would be possible to offer options for different...
My observation is that there is a subset of the population whose education beliefs boil down to "I suffered through education and modern students should suffer like I did". Any attempts to reduce that suffering cause cognitive dissonance and the derision ...
As someone who used to have the delegation to decide whether section 16 of the Immigration Act applied to a person, the bar is high, even for the criminal test. To quote: No visa or entry permission may be granted, and no visa waiver may apply, to any ...
I generally agree with that, but suggest that anonymity isn't really required either unless someone is sufficiently senior to potentially interact with ministers. The Public Service Commission's 2023 election advice is available here - section 3 (starts ...
I had the joy of my local MP, who I campaigned for, becoming a minister in my public service area, so I thought it prudent to declare a conflict of interest. Was agreed that I had done the right thing in declaring it, but also that there was no need to ...
No, but the Public Service Commission's election guidance applies to teachers employed by public schools.
12 or so years ago, I employed a 15 year old who couldn't calculate change for a $9.90 item from $10, or use a calculator to work out the answer (the POS software could do it at time of ordering if payment was made then, but for orders placed by phone, ...
The Year 13s who left school last year, apparently not equipped for the world, had the first eight years of their schooling under the John Key and Bill English ministries. Absolutely! 3 Rs for 3 hours a day doesn't strike me as the way forward, but hey, ...
Hear hear, has been a pleasure following "live" via online scores. Seems reasonably likely that he will surpass Taylor as NZ's record international run-scorer at some point as well.
A few MPs have already announced retirements, so she isn't exactly the start of that trend, but agree that there could be a few more yet.
Annoyingly so. On the other hand, it's now the perfect example to add to any answer by ministers to questions about particular sentences/crimes/policing in general. "Sorry, can't answer that as operational independence of the Police must be maintained." ...
It is proposed for increase to 900L from 1 July in the annual plan (source - pg 19) and from 1 July 2024 will be taken over by the new Southern water service entity, so will be interesting to see how that plays out next year.
For Labour at least, a lot of party policy comes from the party membership via policy committees and conferences. Ruling something out would be awkward if there is actually being work done on it and it appears in the manifesto. Easier just to not buy into ...
Fair point, can't see any other supporting documents being uploaded/provided, just the judgments themselves.
I guess I can't speak for anyone else, but I can't say I expected any MPs to keep promises made in the 2011 or 2014 campaigns, in future campaigns, other than policies that were retained in 2017 and 2020 as part of the manifestos. I was at the Labour Party...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/131473072/labour-stalwart-wins-selection-to-contest-christchurch-east
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/131473072/labour-stalwart-wins-selection-to-contest-christchurch-east Reuben Davidson has been selected as Labour candidate for Christchurch East.
There is a good point made about positive impacts of an climate policy for agriculture based on mitigation e.g. better trade and marketing opportunities. One could add the negative impacts of not doing it, besides the obvious climate disasters, could be NZ...
If you could point to a source for that promise, that would be excellent. I recall her promising to follow through with Andrew Little's promise to have a tax working group (which was a policy from Conference), but not specifically to deliver capital gains ...
https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/statistics/achievement-and-attainment Educational attainment in the adult population: Indicator Report NZers are more educated in terms of finishing school and attaining bachelors degrees than at any point in history. I ...
https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/judgments has decisions by the High Court (since 2003), Court of Appeal (since 2005) and the Supreme Court (all). Decisions are published quickly - the most recent High Court decision is 3 March 2023. District Court decisions...
Especially since we already have some state ECE in kindergartens.
The law doesn't provide for cause of the disorder in the decision-making, just the likelihood of there being disorder, hence why someone not familiar with the practical application of sections 15 and 16 could easily make the mistake of thinking they would ...
Royal visits are not really covered by the Immigration Act as they are visits by or on behalf of NZ's head of state so are more akin to NZ citizens visiting. That said, you're right that a foreign head of state or minister (or any other Guest of Government...
Section 16 of the Immigration Act 2009 leaves the Minister (or anyone with delegated authority which includes Border Officers) with limited discretion to grant visas and entry permission where they think there is, or is likely to be, a threat or risk to ...
Agreed, particularly to make it harder to avoid inheritance tax and to qualify for things like rest home subsidies. Not sure how active MSD is on the latter (they have some powers in that area), but with the loss of inheritance tax, gift tax was less ...
Gift tax was removed in 2011 because by the end, people spent more on avoiding the tax than it raised.
That's one possibility. Another is that they will increase rents to the maximum the market will bear regardless of what the government of the day does.
Climate change: We told you so Someone get the focus groups underway!
The Government issued nothing, the Speaker did in his capacity as legislated head of the Parliamentary precinct.
Not to put words in Thinker's mouth, but my guess is it's a reference to Christopher Luxon's Waitangi speech.
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