We’re developing New Zealand’s first contextualised value-added model to help evaluate New Zealand secondary schools on a variety of outcome measures. Joel Hernandez explains how using integrated… Read more “The value of value-added in schools”
Enforcing the Logical Consequences of Our Beliefs on Free Speech
Tom, Dick and Harry live on an island with a population of three. Tom and Dick disagree with one another on matters of free speech. I’ll get… Read more “Enforcing the Logical Consequences of Our Beliefs on Free Speech”
Guest blog: Serving complete strangers
Blog content written by guest contributor, Emile Phaneuf, 31 August 2018
I’ll drink it here, thanks
You open the doors to wisps of throat-catching cigarette smoke, and walk in to one of Wellington’s coffeehouses with a sleight of hand and a topic you’re… Read more “I’ll drink it here, thanks”
What actually is Philosophy?
Normally when I say I study Philosophy, the response is one of three things: ‘woah, deep…”, “what will you do with that?” and “[attempt at concealing a… Read more “What actually is Philosophy?”
Guest blog: The current state of free speech and debate in New Zealand
Blog content written by guest contributor, Emile Phaneuf | 20 August 2018
Don’t switch to four-day working weeks – it’s a trap!
Our intern Jack Newsom shares his thoughts on the four-day working week.
Education is more than useful knowledge
Non scholae sed vitae discimus (“We do not learn for school but for life.”). That could have been the Government’s motto for its proposed reforms to the… Read more “Education is more than useful knowledge”
Can New Zealand’s Judicial Processes really be this bad?
Each year the World Bank updates its assessments of the degree to which business regulations make it easy or hard to do business in a county. Its… Read more “Can New Zealand’s Judicial Processes really be this bad?”
Treasury’s Living Standards Framework – is growing the four capitals a good thing?
The Treasury’s much vaunted Living Standards Framework (LSF) asserts that raising living standards requires increasing New Zealand’s four capitals, human, natural, social and financial/physical. So here is… Read more “Treasury’s Living Standards Framework – is growing the four capitals a good thing?”