In the late 1970s, when I left school, about 5000 Kiwis were unemployed. From 1984, we adopted a market model to organise our economic lives. This involved the privatisation of…
“Good” said David Farrar when the Destiny Church was denied government permission to run a charter school. OK, I said, what were the reasons? And guess what? Apparently none have…
Maybe 20 years ago, Lindsay Perigo said he was living in the age of bullshit. An accurate assessment of the culture of that time, but it has occurred to me…
There was a time, believe it or not, when the education process was free of political influence. Students were given broad groundings in a wide range of subjects, and graduated…
Here we have the first pronouncement from new Education Minister Hekia Parata on the state of NZ education- “The vast bulk of our system is working, and working really well.”…