Teacher salaries have plummeted over the years
As both primary and secondary teachers continue with their strike campaigns, let’s have a look at the background to their…
Allan Alach
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The Smoking Gun: Stanford’s Plans to Do Away with Ti Tiriti.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve written a number of articles about Erica Stanford’s plans to remove references to…
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Why Are Primary Education Teachers and Other Education Staff Striking?
In a recent ballot, primary teachers, primary principals, support staff, kaiārahi i te reo, therapists and Ministry of Education field…
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Rata and recolonising education
Professor Elizabeth Rata Is Determined to Remove Ti Tiriti From the Education Act Over the past months I’ve written a…
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Yet Another Business Person Who Thinks She is an Educational Expert
Just over a week ago the New Zealand Herald published an opinion piece by Cecilia Robinson, ‘founder and co-chief executive…
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So What’s the Story Behind Stanford’s Proposed New Senior Secondary Curriculum?
This week, with great fanfare at the Auckland base of the US (military?) owned Rocket Lab company, Education Minister Erica…
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So What is the Purpose of Schooling?
In a comment on my recent article The best Education Minister NZ ever had, Mark wrote the following: “Any education…
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The best Education Minister NZ ever had
There were many Ministers of Education during my teaching career, mostly National seeing as they were in government for longer…
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So Erica Stanford Thinks All Brains Learn the Same?
A couple of articles back I wrote about Stanford importing a one size fits all curriculum form overseas. Going by…
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Early Warning Signals: Te Tiriti At Risk Of Removal From the Education and Training Act.
I had intended to write my next article analysing the claims that New Zealand’s education system was in crisis; however…