Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most – ME Awareness Day, Monday May 12th
ME Awareness Day – Monday May 12th – Allan Alach’s personal journey
Read More →The Destruction of New Zealand’s Public Education
National and its cronies are set on a path to destroy New Zealand’s public education at all levels. The privatisation process is on full speed ahead. We have six months to stop it.
Read More →Welcome to National’s Brave New World of Education.
The summer political hiatus is clearly over, and education has been lined up by the National Party as the whipping boy yet again.
Read More →Whatever it takes.
So the crunch year has now arrived – the year where we must ensure the demise of the National led government. All else must be secondary to this.
Read More →Why are teachers used as targets?
I’m not sure, as things stand today, whether I’d encourage anyone to consider teaching as a career. Why should anyone want to paint a target on their chest so that ill informed politicians, media and others, can take pot shots?
Read More →If PISA is the answer, what is the hell was the question?
Late on Tuesday evening, the results of the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests were officially released. The resulting rhetoric was very predictable.
Read More →Rough and ready reflections on PISA test results.
The release of the PISA testing data has engendered the usual media and political hysteria. I’m working on a comprehensive article about PISA and all its failings, which will be posted tomorrow. However there are some quick and probably not too well researched comments that need to be made about the results.
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