The litany of the forces arrayed against quality state education systems is long. We believe these forces make state education’s decline inevitable. Without a thoroughgoing reformation of the fundaments of Western society itself, resistance is futile. The Borg is here. We know that in New Zealand roughly one third of all graduates from state schools [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Education'
The End of State Education: Resistance is Futile
March 15th, 2011 29 Comments
Tags: Alex Standish · Education · NCEA · Robert Whelan · State Education · State Schools · Stephen Hawking
Transitioning to University
January 20th, 2011 1 Comment
What is university like? Is it possible to be a Christian there? What does it mean to live well as a student? If you know someone heading off to university this year, they may be asking themselves these kinds of questions. If they’re not asking these, it’s definitely to be encouraged. To help, I’m pleased [...]
Middleton Grange, Free Exercise and the Gay Rights Movement UPDATED
July 26th, 2010 284 Comments
Over at GayNZ.com’s Proclamations of the Red Queen blog, Craig Young is in a celebratory mood. Middleton Grange, a Reformed Evangelical Christian school has been forced by law to pay reparations and have their management undergo “human rights education” because they dismissed a netball coach on the grounds that he openly engaged in homosexual conduct. Middleton [...]
Tags: Craig Young · Free Exercise · Freedom of Religion · GayNZ.com · Homosexual Conduct · Human Rights · Human Rights Commission · Middleton Grange · Rights and Freedoms
Guest Post: Corruption Rampant in Student Unions Throughout New Zealand
October 16th, 2009 1 Comment
Andy Moore penned this guest post. It follows nicely on from ScrubOne’s: “Free hamburgers and sausage sizzle, $5 jugs of beer” read the advertisement in the student magazine CANTA, a week or so before the University of Canterbury Student Association’s (UCSA) AGM. The quorum for the AGM is 120 students as established in the constitution, [...]
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Guest Post: VUWSA’s VSM Violations
October 16th, 2009 7 Comments
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When ScrubOne sent us this offering as a guest post we couldn’t resist. This sort of thing has been happening for years and we saw it a lot back at Waikato University but that was pre-You Tube…gotta love the internet. DPF links to some videos of a student meeting held at the University of Wellington [...]
Tags: Guest Post · Voluntary Student Membership · VUWSA
VSM Bill off to Select Committee
September 25th, 2009 3 Comments
The VSM Bill has passed its first reading and is off to Select Committee. Predictably the student associations have freaked out and David Farrar has an interesting fisk of the various press releases they’ve issued in response here. Given that Madeleine and I were involved in the move to make student associations voluntary in the [...]
Goff on Labour’s Mistakes: What about Fixing a Few Phil?
September 11th, 2009 6 Comments
I have got to give it to Phil Goff, the more I hear from him the more I like. I grew up in a Social Credit family. I lived in Uncle Gary’s East Coast Bays electorate, my mum was even his electorate secretary at one point. I remember watching my father and uncle on the [...]
Tags: Chris Flatt · Labour Party · Phil Goff
AUSA: ‘FREE’ Candy for your Vote
August 26th, 2009 7 Comments
Following on from More Evidence of Student Association Delusions of Grandeur, where I shared Auckland University Students Assocation’s (AUSA) unfathomable intentions to incorporate the UN Declaration of Human Rights into their constitution, a fellow student and reader of this blog, brought my attention to today’s email to all University of Auckland students which he described [...]
Studying at Otago University no Riot
February 25th, 2009 21 Comments
From 2002-06 I had the pleasure of studying at Otago University. I also taught there in various roles as a researcher, tutor and fill-in lecturer for the Theology, Philosophy and Law schools. Otago was an intellectually rigorous and stimulating place; it’s reputation for being the one of the best Universities in New Zealand and the [...]
Tags: Student Associations · Student Riots · University of Otago · Voluntary Student Membership
Atheist Posters: University Intolerance is Suddenly News?
February 3rd, 2011 32 Comments
Last night I watched a section on TV3′s Campbell Live about the treatment of a campus atheist club at the University of Lincoln entitled “Atheist uni students’ posters torn down” (follow the link to view the video). This story went into detail about how the clubs posters have been regularly ripped down and defaced. The [...]
Tags: Atheist Club · Campbell Live · Natasha Utting · University of Lincoln